Surry Hills Village was a whirl of action, colour, music and fun during the Saturday Indesign weekend!

Over 2,000 designers who made their voyage from around Australia and beyond,  to participate in SID and experience our Light Studio, ensured we had continual stream of visitors engaging with our installation, from early morning brunch to sunset drinks.
Our studio was transformed into an abstract landscape with references to forests and other elements found in natural landscapes through the use of lights and lighting. Creepers hugged the columns and creating a canopy over the pathway through which low clusters of pendants hung. Reaching high in the landscape, mountains of reflection were home to various table lights. Against a grey wall, spindly vines crept amongst the Wall Flowers.  Light Springs gathered at the grey water wall, while pods of Wastberg lights nestled together in the depths of the woods.

Graphics, by our SID partner Bleux, wrapped and morphed, complementing our landscape which was enhanced further with an overlay of colour and effects through light by Vision Design.

Our product highlights this year were:

Can-Can pendant light , by Marcel Wanders, draws of inspirations from can-can dancers . The Can-Can has a hard shiny outer shade, whilst beneath is hiding a whimsical fun and vibrant acrylic design, adding sophisticated and unexpected elements to our everyday settings.

Light Spring: is part of a range of wall lights utilizing a simplistic elegant form with LED. Designer Ron Gilad explains that the designs are inspired from classic candelabras.

Mini Teca : Ron Gilard’s Mini Teca is a play on the thought that design pieces are in fact not necessarily only for utilitarian uses, but are in fact collectables. This fun little light encased in a clear acrylic box sits proud like an Object d’art, just as museum pieces sit behind closed glass cabinets to be admired from a distance. 

Francesco Rota’s Canopy pendant lights, in bold fuchsia and golden yellow, were beautiful glowing shades covering a promenade of Oluce luminaires designed by the likes of Joe Colombo and Magistretti in the 1960’s & ‘70’s. Sleek black and illuminated white Atollos, the black Spider and the Coupe family, are some of the most recognizable and sort after classics. The new Coroa pendant, design by Emmanuel Babled, created by layering plates of white aluminium around the circular structure, was an eye-catching play of light and shadow.

Yamagiwa products : on display were the Mayuhana pendant by Toyo Ito, ethereal lights made of layers of spun fiber-glasses, floating effortless above Yukio Hashimoto’s Moon Bird, the hand sculptured timber desk light.

SID was our premiere showing of Wastberg, a Swedish company we are pleased to have joined our portfolio of manufactures who are world leaders of innovation and design. Wastberg’s thoughtfully designed collection of Led desk lights nestled in a landscape of woodchips and logs were positively received by all our guests.  Being designed by the likes of James Irvine, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Jean-Marie Massaud and Ilse Crawford, it’s easy to know why.