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RBW Announces Six New Lighting Pieces
New York lighting brand RBW has announced the launch of six new pieces, all embodying the brand’s triple tenets of simplicity, clarity and vibrancy.
From its base in upstate New York, RBW has launched six new lights, signalling a momentous year for the award-winning, independent lighting design and manufacturing company. The new pieces – Bon, Dimple Dash, Highline Flush Mount and Pendant, Pastille 2 and Tidal – lean heavily into the brand’s design principles: linear simplicity, clarity of form and unpretentious yet elevated lighting. “These are all central to our ongoing, shared language,” says Theo Richardson, RBW’s founding partner and director of innovation. “And, despite being created by many different authors, each of these new pieces is grounded in these formative ideas.”
The pieces also reflect RBW’s strong sense of identity through engaging profiles and exceptional technical capabilities. “Bon and Tidal, which share similarities to Ripple and Crisp, express our fondness for textural patterns,” says Richardson. “On the other hand, Highline, Dimple Dash and Pastille 2 pose the question, ‘What constitutes a form?’
“Where spheres represent geometric purity, river-shaped pebbles evoke natural organic forms. We are after something in between; something that feels less rigid and less conventional than a sphere yet more easily reproducible than the irregularities of a found stone. These forms transition from hard-edged and rectilinear to radial smoothness. It’s a common thread throughout our work – the notion of exploring the space between the platonic solid and the object found on a walk.”
That philosophy is embodied in the sculptural Pastille 2, a new take on RBW’s Pastille range. Inspired by organic forms and architectural exactness, the dual-globe design balances bold aesthetics with pragmatics. Subtle Art Deco influences blend with RBW’s contemporary thinking to create a classic design. Alongside its siblings – the Pastille single, trio and Wayfind – the new iteration brings added versatility to the larger collection.
The Pastille isn’t the only reimagined piece. The brand’s much-lauded Dimple finds a new expression in Dimple Dash, an elongated take on the rotund, spherical original. With the same streamlined profile and roundness of form but with an elegantly extended middle, it’s poised yet approachable.
The Highline family has also been expanded to include a standalone flush mount and pendant. Created in collaboration with industrial designer Jonas Damon, founder of Office for Design, these iterations embody refined and modern design, where form, material and function merge. There’s no track system required, and the pared-down form promises striking illumination without visual clutter.
Collaboration is also at the heart of Bon, a new pendant defined by soft curvature and oversized glass globes, designed with Los Angeles-based industrial designer Alex Brokamp. Available as a trio and a single pendant in two sizes, Bon unites the expansive glow of a large globe with the softness of a shaded pendant. Lastly is the smooth and sculptural Tidal, created with Henry Julier of Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary firm Standard Issue. Made from spun aluminum, the undulating form appears almost weightless overhead, casting a soft, even glow.
Shown for the first time at leading industry event LEDucation in March in New York, the six pieces will also soon take centre stage at RBW’s new Manhattan showroom, set to open in Tribeca in May.
