Inspired by the common-place workshop lamp, driven by functionality with modest characteristics, the w162 Dalston reinvigorates traditional designs for contemporary domestic spaces. A quality composition of robust and honest materials, the light's separate LED engine attaches to the aluminium shade, providing a recessed light source and ensuring highly efficient glare protection despite the direct downward light projection, even when hung high. Available in a range of contemporary colourways with two shade sizes, the pendant light maintains its brilliance whether suspended as an individual piece or as a group.
Hecht and Colin at their core embody two contrasting worldviews. He is a native Londoner, educated as an industrial designer, contemplative, and drawn to essential simplicity. She is a Californian, trained as an architect, effusive, and drawn to use the sensibilities of her discipline; emotion, scale, landscape, culture - to inform design.
Their studio, Industrial Facility, is located in central London’s Clerkenwell neighbourhood - itself a place of opposites, hip and professional, home to thinkers and entertainers. The studio is small in number, eclectic in talent.