London Design Festival 2015: the making of Hem's Alphabeta lamp

Watch our video to see Luca Nichetto and the Hem team create the Alphabeta lamp
21 September 2015

Hem is continuing its ongoing collaboration with designer Luca Nichetto, who has conceived Alphabeta, a new modular pendant lamp designed to be configured online.

“With Alphabeta, we wanted to create a lamp that is made from high quality materials, and allows people to customise and personalise their own lighting. At Hem, we want to make products that inspire people and allow them to dream-up new ways of creating interiors for their home. Luca Nichetto has a great eye for spotting new behaviours and new needs, and he brought us this idea of a lamp that could be combined in different ways to create your own and unique lamp,” says Petrus Palmér, Hem Co-Founder and Head of Design.

It is the world’s first digitally-customisable pendant lamp with more than 10 billion possible combinations. The Alphabeta shades come in eight different shapes of interchangeable top and bottom shades, each available in its own colour, as well as in black and in white. This creates a total of 24 available shades, and thus billions of possible combinations when four pendants are combined. The shades are crafted from steel and spun by hand in a factory near Venice, Italy, resulting in a pristine finish. The pendants adapt to a bi-directional lighting source that brightens spaces above and below the lamp.
 
“My inspiration was really an ambition to create an alphabet; a system where you can combine different kinds of shades to create your own lamps. I researched different kinds of shades and effects of light, and tried to simplify that by creating a single piece that can be combined with the other shades, to create a kind of alphabet,” adds Luca Nichetto.

London Design Festival runs until 27 September

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