Focus On : The Sunset Lamp
Lozi's plywood lamp with the magical glow: The Sunset Lamp.
Lozi's Sunset Lamp first came into existence in 2015 as part of the collection Lozi launched at 100% Design. A few months earlier, our founder Soroush had been on a long road trip down the coast of Portugal with a couple of friends, enjoying the food and sunshine the country has to offer. Whilst surfing on the coast just south of Lisbon, in the evenings they would have dinner on a cliff top overlooking the Atlantic, admiring the sunset and the light reflecting in the ocean. The light was so magical they all wished they could bring it home with them, to brighten the significantly less sunny days here in the UK, and that is how the idea for the sunset lamp first came about.
Wanting to create a lamp that not only looked like a setting sun but also gave off the same quality of light was no easy feat. After experimenting with a variety of materials, Soroush finally settled on pine veneer for its defined striations and particularly orange glow The next hurdle was manufacturing the sunset's circular shape, used as a structure for the veneer to sit on. Before Lozi had a CNC machine, it had to be made by vacuum pressing plywood into a perfect circle. This was an extremely fiddly process but still less fiddly than cutting a perfect circle by hand. The sides were originally from solid plywood, with only the front and back veneer. Since acquiring the CNC router, the circular structure is cut from a flat sheet of plywood. This means the top can now also be made of translucent veneer, letting out even more light.
The sunset lamp is available to buy online
The original sunset lamp, with plywood sides. The entire shape was made by vacuum pressing a circle, and then cutting out the bottom before attaching the veneer to the front and back.
Photo of the collection of Sunset Lamps on display at Clerkenwell Design Week in 2017, Via Top Drawer's blog.
The sunset is now made from two circles cut from a sheet of plywood on the CNC. The veneer is then fixed to the font and back.
Rio Cinema
If you follow us on Facebook or Instagram you may have seen our very exciting news! Lozi is sponsoring and designing a fantastic new bar for The Rio Cinema in Dalston, East London. The long corridor leading to the bar was in dire need of some interesting lighting, we decided to give Lozi's classic the Sunset Lamp a cinematic twist: A cutout flat piece of plywood slotted inside casts a film reel shadow on the veneer when turned on, but remains invisible otherwise. Just fix it onto the wall, with a segment to the bottom of the lamp left open to light the floor, and you have beautiful lighting fit for the iconic cinema!
