Blog: Switch Modern

Moooi Meshmatics Suspension Light

Rick Tegelaar's much anticipated Meshmatics suspension light for Moooi, Netherlands, has finally arrived in the United States. Tegelaar quite literally developed special machinery and an associated set of tools that enable the designer to manipulate chicken wire in both a highly controlled and precise fashion. As described by the designer, "By stretching the material over a mold it shrinks itself...

Moooi Carpets: Maison Christian Lacroix

Maison Christian Lacroix's fabulously exuberant Malmaison rug is available in four colorways - noted here are Malmaison Berlingot (left) and Malmaison Citrus (right). Legendary French fashion house, Maison Christian Lacroix, created this extraordinarily vivid design for Moooi. The Malmaison series consists of four rugs - each is part of the Moooi Signatures Collection. Maison Christian Lacroix was inspired by France...

And The Beat (Light)... Goes On

Tom Dixon's now classic Beat Light Series has two new additions - Beat Waist and Beat Flat. Introduced in 2016, these new diffuser shapes (shown in the right side photo flanking Beat Stout) complement the original designs that include Beat Fat, Beat Stout, Beat Wide, and Beat Tall. Left side photo: Line drawings of various types of domes used...

Flos Parentesi Lamp: Design Icon

The Parentesi lamp is a favorite at Switch Modern. We recently installed a pair of these in our Atlanta showroom and were reminded about how extraordinary this lighting design is as it blurs the boundaries between the lighting typologies of floor lamp, ceiling light, and wall light. This drawing illustrates Pio Manzu's original concept and its evolution. After Manzu's death...

Tom Dixon: Melt Lights

Tom Dixon's Melt Light is an extraordinary series of distorted spherical lights that are half-metallized to create an incredible optical effect that casts an ethereal luminosity within any interior that they are placed. Melt was the result of a 2014 collaboration between Dixon and the Swedish design collective, Front, experimenting in the technologically advanced fields of blow molding and vacuum...

Oluce Alba Lights

Alba is an engaging and luxe collection of lighting from Italian manufacturer Oluce that was introduced in 2018 and designed by Mariana Pellegrino Soto. The Alba Collection includes several lighting typologies - table, floor, as well as suspension and wall sconce versions. The Alba Collection features two different suspension light versions. A single droplet diffuser - Alba 465 (left side...

Dutch Lighting Exhibition + Event 2/16/18

Switch Modern was delighted to present our latest exhibition... Dutch Masters: Contemporary Lighting from Holland. The exhibition features a range of lighting designs manufactured by Moooi, Flos, and Ingo Maurer, that were created by Dutch designers - Joost van Bleiswijk, Joel Degermark, Richard Hutten, Frans van Nieuwenborg + Martijin Wegman, Bertjan Pot, Raimond Puts + OK-ID, Studio Job, Rick Tegelaar, and...

Snoopy Lamp - Flos 50th Anniversary Limited Edition

In honor or the 50th anniversary of the Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni's iconic Snoopy lamp, Flos has created a special edition with a matte black finish shade in an edition of 1700 examples. The designers were inspired by the Peanuts character for their Snoopy table lamp. Like the limited edition, the actual example of the original version from 1967 preserved...

Italian Design at 2018 Winter Olympics

Switch Modern was delighted to learn that several Italian manufacturers that we represent - Edra, Glas Italia, and Riva 1920 - were invited to provide the furnishings to create the interiors for Casa Italia at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Casa Italia functions as the hospitality center for the Italian delegation at the Olympic Games. In Pyeongchang...

Petite Friture - Extraordinary Lighting; Special Pricing

Tom Dixon's Melt Light is an extraordinary series of distorted spherical lights that are half-metallized to create an incredible optical effect that casts an ethereal luminosity within any interior that they are placed. Melt was the result of a 2014 collaboration between Dixon and the Swedish design collective, Front, experimenting in the technologically advanced fields of blow molding and vacuum...

Moooi Perch Lights

Upper photo: Perch Light Branch suspension lamp, Umut Yamac, Moooi, Netherlands, 2016. Lower photos: Detail, Perch Light bird form diffuser and designer's sketch for the Perch Light project. The family of Perch Lights - suspension, wall, table, and floor - was recently introduced by Moooi, Netherlands, and is now available in the United States. The forms were inspired...

Extraordinary Mirrors

Left photo: The Miraggio mirror designed by the Campana Brothers for Edra, Italy, in 2009 features an assemblage of laser-cut pieces of varying sizes that have been "stitched" together to create a reflective surface that blurs the boundaries of fine art and design. Right photo: The Francis mirror recently designed by Constance Guisset for Petite Friture, France, explores the...

Kartell Goes Sottass: A Tribute to Memphis

As part of a tribute to Ettore Sottsass (1917 - 2007), Kartell has created a collection of designs that take their inspiration from the graphics and forms pioneered by the designer through the Memphis Movement in the 1980s. In addition to offering historic, graphic textiles by both Ettore Sottsass and Nathalie du Pasquier on many of Kartell's extant upholstered...

Poliform: Dama Table or Stool

The Poliform Dama table or stool is the perfect anywhere surface. Its cylindrical base tapers inwardly as it approaches the top - akin to being "cinched," it cants sharply outward to define the top. The Dama table's slightly concave surface makes it comfortable for use a stool yet it can also do double duty as an impromptu table. ...

CVL Lighting - Earth Wall Sconces

Sun wall sconce, Émilie Cathelineau, CVL Lighting / CVL Luminaires Contract, France. Part of the designer's Earth collection that features six new wall sconce designs. Illustrated here is the Sun version with an engaging pattern of radiating linear perforations - each in varying lengths and culminating in a circle of varying diameters. The Earth wall sconce collection from CVL...

Replacement Covers... Bensen, Flexform, Giorgetti, MDF Italia, Poliform, Walter Knoll, Zanotta

Groundpiece sectional, Antonio Citterio, Flexform, 2001. Since its introduction, Groundpiece has been one of Flexform's most popular seating systems. Many of the European brands that Switch Modern represents use tailor-made upholstery covers that are cleverly affixed to the upholstered form's structure and cushions. Several sofas, sectionals, beds, and lounge chairs from a range of manufacturers - Bensen, Flexform, Giorgetti...

Ingo Maurer Lucellino LED + Delight Lamps

Lucellino LED lamp, Ingo Maurer, Germany, 1992/2015. This design icon from the early 1990s is one of Ingo Maurer's best known lighting designs. Its name is a clever portmanteau - in Italian, "luce" means light and "uccellino" translates as little bird. Its form is quite literally a proprietary light bulb with affixed hand-crafted goose feather wings that has been...

Bensen Endless Sectional Seating

Bensen's Endless sectional and sofa seating designed by Niels Bendtsen truly lives up to its name! Endless is a modular seating system with seemingly an infinite number of possible configurations. This Endless sectional configuration viewed aerially illustrates how several different components can be combined. From left to right - a terminal element in standard depth, inwardly curved element...

Jaime Hayon @ Switch Modern Exhibition + Event 6/22/17

Switch Modern is delighted to present a pop-up exhibition of the work of much celebrated artist and designer Jaime Hayon! The exhibition features a range of designs - furniture, lighting, accessories - that Hayon had created for several European manufacturers over the past decade. Jaime Hayon @ Switch Modern includes over thirty of Hayon's designs produced by &Tradition, Denmark; BD...

Jaime Hayon Wittmann Wings Bed

Jaime Hayon's Wings bed for Wittmann, Austria, just arrived this week at our Atlanta showroom - it's spectacular! In fact, several pieces from the Hayon Wittmann Workshop Collection are now in the showroom. We have all been admiring these pieces and we thought that it would be great to share some thoughts about the collection and the Wings bed...