Image source: Ingo Maurer — 1000 Karat Blau
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1000 Karat Blau
Large pendant of gold-leaf acrylic shades by Axel Schmid, with 20 shades per luminaire
640 × 500 mm
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Description
Overview
1000 Karat Blau is a large pendant luminaire with the effect of a light object. It contains 20 shades as a single luminaire, and a version with 18 shades exists for building clusters of several units.
Construction
The shades are acrylic with gold leaf. The leaf reflects the warm, long-wave part of the light back and forth, while only the short-wave blue light passes between the molecules of the gold, so the point of light looks bluish. The pendant hangs on a transparent cable with a white canopy, and an optional reflector is included.
Specifications
- Size: 64 x 50 cm (W x H), suspension excluded
- Light source: E27 socket, max. 60 W, supplied without light source; for LED filament and halogen lamps of energy classes A-G
- Voltage: 100 - 240 V
- Canopy: Ø7 x 3 cm; cable length 200 cm, cable 400 cm, special lengths possible
Story
Axel Schmid
1000 Karat Blau is by Axel Schmid, 2009/2016.
The Room Studio at Casa Decor 2021
The Room Studio used 1000 Karat Blau in a home-office interior for Casa Decor 2021 in Madrid, which each year turns a vacant building into rooms by different designers. Their concept was a space inspired by working at home.
