After nearly two years of R&D we are finally ready to share Dusk
with the rest of world. The concept for the design actually started
more than three Years ago but the technology we required was not
available at that time. We needed a very powerful led, with a specific
colour temperature, small enough to fit within our fixture. We now have
exactly what we were looking for a beautiful warm white light source
with plenty of power that is also dimmable.
Although
very simple in form there is nothing simple about the design of the
dusk collection. For a powerful led you need to design a good heat sink
to dissipate the heat away from the led. We achieved this with the
combination of some clever internal engineering and producing the main
body from cast copper that makes, not only, a great heat-sink but also
provides us with the perfect base to apply precious metals like gold,
silver and many other non-precious finishes.
The next
challenge was to find a way to seamlessly attach the hand ground optical
crystal to the main body, so that all the precise angles line up
perfectly, without the need for screws to secure the the crystal in
place. These angles are not just aesthetic, they are designed to the
break up and bounce the light through out the chandelier when using many
single vertical Dusk pieces together.