Lodes on the occasion of Milan Design Week announced several important new products and did so through four different spaces: from the showroom in Via della Moscova to La Rinascente, passing through the Brera Site of Diesel Living and Archiproducts Milano. The Venetian company has thus given rise to a series of immersive experiences through unprecedented lighting creations capable of representing and conveying the brand’s creative vision.
In this context, Lodes announced its first collaboration with designer Paola Navone – OTTO Studio, which resulted in Oblò, a family of lamps inspired by the marine world. The glass diffuser, with its soft and rounded design, is supported by a knotted cable, recalling the image of a buoy floating in space, elegant and light. Surprisingly, thanks to the cleverly concealed LED source powered by the cable, the lamp appears as a pure form of glass and light, giving the sensation of looking through the porthole of a ship. The diffuser comes in three different shapes and five finishes, three of which recall the transparency of the sea. The variety of proposals leaves you free to choose the number and the different composition resulting from the combination of the different lamps.
Another novelty is Random Stick, a suspension lamp in a horizontal version that extends the collection of the same name designed by Chia-Ying Lee. Random’s poetic spheres of light find their place on a hexagonal bar, almost as if they were fragile soap bubbles that skim the surface before taking flight again. The result is a solution with an essential but strongly decorative character that lends itself to illuminating long, rectangular surfaces, such as a dining table or the counter of a cocktail bar, showing great affinity also to retail contexts.
The Volum collection designed by studio Snøhetta is also extended with a new floor version, available in two frame heights and two glass sizes: four new combinations that, alone or in composition, lend themselves to creating new lighting solutions. The Volum collection celebrates the elegance of simplicity by proposing a series of lamps with similar but intimately different shapes, which complement each other in poetic compositions that tell of 360° lighting capable of adding value to any space and situation. Behind its apparent simplicity, however, Volum conceals a complex technical achievement in homage to the ancient technique of glassblowing that gives life to naturally imperfect shapes.
Another novelty is Tidal, the ceiling lamp realised in collaboration with NeedsStudio, which is renewed in two new sizes – 45 and 75 cm – that open the door to further composition possibilities. The fluid, oval shape of the lamp captures the essence of the movements of celestial bodies, waves and tides with a simple yet striking design. Thanks to the intuition of creating one side wider than the other, the lamp appears different depending on how you look at it from below. Tidal projects the light downwards and upwards at the same time and allows its intensity to be modulated thanks to the dimmer controlled by the wall switch.
