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Nebula urban lighting collection by SOM / Neri
15 July 2020
Nebula urban lighting collection by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + Neri
Design: SOM and Neri
Meet Nebula: the new urban lighting collection by two global design brands
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) teams with Italian lighting designer Neri to create a contemporary outdoor lighting collection for city streets, squares, and parks.

Original Image © Yasmin Bouharras
SOM and high-end Italian lighting manufacturer Neri joined forces in 2019 with the ambition to create a lighting system that blends into any cityscape while enhancing the public realm with a contemporary and recognizable design. Manufactured in Italy, the series will go into production in July 2020. ?Our team of architects, lighting designers, and fabricators sought to design a collection of outdoor lights that meet the demands of almost any design brief from a performance and aesthetic perspective,? says Carlos Madrid III, who led the project on behalf of SOM. ?While the family of lights appears as a finite system, it is quite malleable, similar to theatrical lighting, where each light source is independent and lights can be added, removed, focused in certain directions or at specific objects.?

Image © SOM | Neri
The lights come in several scales, adding a modern twist to historical settings while blending into contemporary locations. Thr...