MANUKA LED PENDANT LIGHT

Description

At either 1.1 metres in diameter (or even the smaller 800 mm version), Manuka is a colossal light by any measure – designed specifically for public or gallery spaces.

Its name comes from the New Zealand tea tree(Leptospermum scoparium), a small tree or shrub, native to the drier eastern coastal regions of New Zealand and Australia. Its five-petaled flower is what Trubridge has modeled in CNC-cut bamboo and translucent polycarbonate as the interlocking framework for Manuka’s dodecahedron (twelve pentagon / six hexagon) form.

Fitted with a series of LED pin-spot lights, the giant ball casts silhouettes so surprising, even Trubridge wouldn’t have predicted them. “With the light shining at all different directions from within the fitting, the projected patterns seem to overlap one another. It looks like wallpaper.”