Bespoke Lighting Installations
Whether it’s configuring Bocci’s Series 73 into a cascading chandelier or extending Moooi’s Heracleum III across a dining room, Space facilitates lighting that is as unique as the interior it inhabits.
For more than 30 years, Space Furniture has set the benchmark in luxury design retail, offering the Australia and Southeast Asia markets an unwavering commitment to the best in contemporary design from across the globe, matched with the highest level of customer service. It’s a synergy brought to life in Space’s partnerships with world-renowned lighting brands, co-creating sculptural lighting installations for both residential and commercial projects.
By collaborating with companies like Vancouver-based Bocci and Dutch powerhouse Moooi – each possessing a distinctive design language underscored by innovation and technical prowess – Space is able to customise existing products to create stunning bespoke lights that transform interiors. Both brands offer customisable, advanced lighting systems that allow for artistic expression and spatial storytelling, with Bocci’s in-house technical design team able to configure lighting installations of almost any scale.
That capacity is beautifully illustrated in Blowfish Ocean Grill + Bar on the Gold Coast, where restaurateurs Steven and Autumn Adams wanted to create an eatery that bucked hospitality conventions. To add a sense of drama to an expansive void over the bar, the duo were steered towards Bocci’s 73 Series pendant lights. “When we began the process of searching for the perfect piece, the 73 Series, with its elegant sculptural quality, immediately spoke to me,” says interior designer Jill Chilton of Gold Coast-based Space Cubed Design Studio.
To create the largest Bocci commission in Australia, Space Furniture co-ordinated the collaboration between the Canadian multidisciplinary studio and local teams, with “everyone coming together with such dedication and enthusiasm to ensure the installation was designed, documented, shipped, delivered and installed on time and without an issue,” says Deena O’Callaghan, design and atelier consultant at Space. “It’s a tremendous outcome and a majestic moment within the restaurant.”
Comprising 61 hand-blown glass lights suspended at varying heights on individual cables, the installation appears to float over the bar like a phosphorescent jellyfish, “providing beautiful ambient illumination but also visually connecting the ground-floor and second-level dining spaces,” says O’Callaghan.
Series 73 reflects the craftsmanship at the heart of Bocci’s work. The lights are created by inflating molten glass within woven, ceramic-infused textile moulds, capturing the texture and patterns of the textiles. The after effect is a diffused glow emanating from the cloud-like forms. The process is equally intricate for Series 57, where collapsed bubbles made through a unique glass-blowing technique create abstract forms with suspended air pockets, causing light to be refracted in distinct ways.
That level of artisanship is also a hallmark of everything created by Moooi, co-founded by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders in 2001. But it’s the brand’s Heracleum III Endless suspension lamp that intrinsically lends itself to customisation. Designed by Bertjan Pot and named after the delicate European flower, it’s described as “a perpetual blossom of new flowers” as the frame can be extended to virtually any length in straight, 90-degree or 135-degree permutations.
Space’s long-standing partnerships with brands like Bocci and Moooi and its expertise, honed over three decades, ensure that commissioning and integrating customised lighting into residential, commercial and hospitality projects is a seamless experience. The end result are spaces that are harmonious and elevated through individuality, depth and impeccable design.
