Silver Lighting Products and Fixtures Design · 2025
Level Pendant Lamp
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Maytoni
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About Level Pendant Lamp
Level is a collection of pendant lamps designed for interior lighting. The collection includes three models with slightly different shapes. Each lamp is built on a metal frame that holds multi-level amber glass elements with a vertical ornament. The forms recall the silhouette of a city business center at sunset. Two LED light sources are used in every model. The lower source lights the functional areas of a room. The upper source lights the glass and creates reflections on its surface. The three models can be combined into larger compositions.
The Level Pendant Lamp by Alexey Danilin emerges from a rich lineage of decorative lighting design that bridges historical glassmaking traditions with contemporary spatial aesthetics, presenting a sculptural illumination object that transcends mere functionality to become a focal point of refined interior environments. The work demonstrates exceptional technical accomplishment in its manipulation of colored glass, achieving a subtle chromatic gradation from cooler, nearly colorless upper elements through increasingly warm amber tones toward the radiant base, a transition that evokes both the natural phenomena of light passing through atmospheric layers and the alchemical transformation associated with master glassworking traditions. Compositionally, the designer has orchestrated a rhythmic vertical progression of graduated horizontal platforms, each featuring precisely executed scalloped or stepped edges that recall the geometric vocabulary of Art Deco luxury objects while maintaining a contemporary clarity of form that speaks to current minimalist sensibilities. The technical sophistication extends to the calculated optical relationship between the pendant and its environmental context, as demonstrated by the placement before reeded glass panels that create an ever-shifting dialogue of refraction, reflection, and linear interference patterns. The warm illumination emanating from the base element serves not merely to provide light but to activate the entire sculptural assembly, transforming transparent and translucent materials into glowing vessels that seem to contain captured sunlight. One might observe in this work a meditation on the transformative properties of glass as a medium capable of simultaneously revealing and veiling, containing and releasing, solid in form yet permeable to light. The viewer is invited to contemplate how the interplay between crafted object and ambient environment creates an experience of illumination that extends far beyond the practical provision of light into realms of atmospheric poetry and spatial enchantment.
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- Unique Properties
- The silhouette of the landscape of the metropolis in the rays of sunset is created due to the forms, materials and light properties. The lamps consist of multi-level glass forms, which in the composition create an image of the silhouette of the business center of the city, consisting of skyscrapers. Light scenarios were specially thought out so that the lower light source illuminates the functional areas of the interior, and the upper light source illuminates glass forms and creates glare and play of light on them. A vertical ornament was created on these elements to emphasize associations with early 20th century architecture. It is easy to create compositions from lamps from a large number of these products, and they will look airy thanks to translucent glass.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Pendant lamp, armature color brass, color temperature 3000 K, IP protection IP 20, scattering angle 120 °, voltage AC 220-240 V, luminous flux 1450 lm.
- Tags
- alexey danilin, maytoni, pendant lamp, design, lighting, level, lamp
- Production Technology
- The collection of pendant lights is created from three models each with slightly different shapes. The basis of the lamps is a metal frame, on which amber glasses with a vertical ornament are attached. The models have two LED light sources: Lower to illuminate the functional areas of the space and Upper to illuminate the glass, as well as to emphasize its quality and decorative properties. LED lights are made with a warm color temperature to emphasize the shades of amber glass. You can create different compositions for the interior from three models. The height of the wire is 3000 mm and it can be changed.
- Design Challenge
- The study of archival photographs of megacities of the early 20th century, and the study of the properties of light at sunset, yielded great results, but showed the need for additional research on glass ornaments to understand how it affects the formation of glare and chiaroscuro. After that, it was decided to use a second additional light source to illuminate decorative glass elements. In particular, it was decided to use a vertical ornament, which fit the meaning of the lamps and did not interfere with the perception of its general silhouette.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2023 in Moscow and finished in January 2024 in Moscow, and was exhibited in Interlight in September 2024.
- Operation Flow
- The lamps have a bright design, but at the same time consist of rather simple shapes and restrained ornament. Thanks to this, they can be used in a wide variety of interior styles. Due to their similar shapes, pendant lights can be combined into different compositions. They can be placed in the dining room, above the bar, above the bedside table, or even create a large composition in the stair flight.
- Research
- In order to create an image of the silhouette of a metropolis in the rays of sunset, it was necessary to come up with forms, technologies and materials that would best convey the creative idea of the project. The first task was to study the images of the silhouette of the business center of the city, to find patterns of forms. It was necessary to understand what unites them. For this, hundreds of photographs of megacities of the early 20th century were viewed at sunset. In addition, after choosing glass as the main material for the models, it was necessary to study the properties of glass and LED light sources in order to arrange them in the most successful way with a successful luminous flux and color temperature.
- Inspiration
- Unfortunately, people often forget about their first impression and emotions. That is why a collection was created to emphasize the beauty of familiar places. For example, many people live in modern megacities, and they are initially impressed by modern architecture and urban landscape, but then it becomes familiar to them. The Level collection conveyed the beauty spirit of the big city. This was done thanks to multi-level glass elements, vertical ornament and amber glass, the color of sunrise. Three suspended lamps with different shapes create a general composition reminiscent of New York at the beginning of the 20th century, with its famous skyscrapers from the time of Art Deco and the great Gatsby.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024, image #2: Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024, image #3: Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024, image #4: Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024, image #5: Maytoni brand photographer Pavel Dunaev, 2024.
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