Designers Daniel Rybakken and Francisco Gomez Paz have both unveiled their latest chandelier designs for Italian lighting brand Luceplan.
Milan-based Gomez Paz has created Mesh, a suspension lamp made up of a delicate, bulbous web of thin steel cables that are studded with LEDs at their intersections.
Francisco Gomez Paz' Mesh suspension lamp is made up of a delicate, bulbous web of thin steel cables
Norwegian Rybakken's Stochastic light features a single, large central light source, though it is obscured through an arrangement of glass spheres reminiscent of an upside-down bunch of balloons on strings.
For both designers, the chandeliers involved experimentation with LED lighting.
"It was really interesting to deconstruct this unique source of light, to make it explode in the space," said Milan-based Gomez Paz in a talk moderated by Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at Luceplan's Soho showroom during New York design week. Each of the LEDs on the Mesh lamp can be independently controlled
The design of Mesh allows each of its LEDs to be independently controlled, so users can not only control the intensity of the light but choose to cast it in different parts of a room at different times.

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