Christopher Boots
Christopher Boots is driven by a love of nature and light, committed to nothing short of excellence. Trained in Industrial Design, Boots’ focus is creating lighting interpreted as sculptural objects.
Boots look to classical and metaphysical worlds, honoring elegant proportions, precise details, and a highly developed sculptural sense, along the journey suggesting mythical ideas about creation and change.
He is a dedicated craftsman, seeking to elevate and transform materials in ways that highlight their natural beauty. After studying literature and linguistics, Boots graduated from the National School of Design (Melbourne), and established his eponymous studio in early 2011, releasing his first lighting collection later that year.
THE BRAND
The Christopher Boots studio was founded on the principle of “Fiat Lux”: Let there be Light.
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Meteors slash through the sky, dazzling all who witness their strangeness. It is this primal, cosmic energy that is captured in METEOR. METEOR implements a delicate hand-picked selection of gradations of natural smoky quartz and natural clear quartz, conveying the dynamism and movement of cosmic matter plummeting to Earth. Warm light emanates through the naturally uncut crystals, providing a dramatic glow through dimmable LED technology.
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Portal 600 and Prometheus IV Table Lamps embody the cyclical nature of existence, emanating luminescence from a minimalist form. Looking through the lamps, one is drawn through a metaphysical passageway connecting two environments, dimensions, or points in time. A Portal is a gateway, a liminal transition space, a link to beyond with a solid boundary and void. In a charged area, portals have magical resonance and hint at multi-dimensional adventure. Portal Table Lamp draws on this promise while Prometheus stole fire from the Gods of Olympus and gave it to humankind. More than the means for survival- light, and technology, Prometheus’ gift represented creative potential. The spark of creation, previously limited to the Gods, gave mortals the power to dream, create, imagine, and challenge. Prometheus IV is an implosion of blazing crystal quartz, venerating its namesake in a flame ring.
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Meteors slash through the sky, dazzling all who witness their strangeness. It is this primal, cosmic energy that is captured in METEOR. METEOR implements a delicate hand-picked selection of gradations of natural smoky quartz and natural clear quartz, conveying the dynamism and movement of cosmic matter plummeting to Earth. Warm light emanates through the naturally uncut crystals, providing a dramatic glow through dimmable LED technology.
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SUGAR BOMB TWIN SCONCE radiates warm light through cracks and crevices, illuminating the delicate inherent beauty of natural quartz crystal. These pieces are intended to push design process limits and explore materiality, in order to continually evolve our craft.
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Sugar Bomb Stormy Quartz Sconce emanates warmth, highlighting the delicate beauty found in irregular crevices of natural quartz. A rare pairing with the new and limited stormy quartz in its raw form, the result is both luminous and moody.
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SUGAR BOMB emits a warm light through cracks and crevices, illuminating the delicate inherent beauty of natural quartz crystal
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STALACTITE exudes warm light through cracks and crevices, illuminating the beautiful imperfections of natural quartz crystals.
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Prometheus – represented a creative potential, the spark of creation limited to the Gods, given to mortals the power to dream, to create, to imagine, and challenge. PROMETHEUS IV is an implosion of blazing crystal quartz, venerating its namesake in a ring of flame.
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For Pythagoras, numbers had mystical influence with an ability to be harnessed, achieving beauty in balance and draws on the insights of its namesake, invoking a calculated harmony in the meeting of light and geometry.
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PROMETHEUS is an ascending blaze of crystal quartz, venerating its namesake in a ring of flame. it embodies Christopher Boots rough-luxe beauty and is considered as contemporary classic.
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ORP CRYSTAL is a crystallised structure emanating warm light through an architecture of ancient geometry, radiating warm light through cracks and crevices, illuminating the delicate inherent beauty of natural quartz crystal.
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Oblique Rhombic Prism is a pared-back structure that allows sacred geometry and light to come together as one. ORP emphasizes simplicity and form, connecting elements that speak to the links between all formations of life.
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NEPENTHES is inspired by the carnivorous plant Nepenthaceae, named after this mythical, soporific potion, the flamboyant Nepenthaceae seduce their prey with enticing interiors, sweet scents, and sugary nectar. NEPENTHES expresses these dangerous but pleasurable properties through a sculptural contrast between the hard geometry of solid brass tendrils and the glowing delicacy of amorphous hand-blown glass.
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In Classical Antiquity, an Oracle was both a place and a person through which world has seen and unseen could momentarily touch, the Oracle channeled the mysteries of the Gods for human illumination. Brass interlocking rings laid with LED dance mid-air, bridging the Classical and 21st Century.
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In the ancient story, David triumph the giant Goliath using only his humour and a stone. The mass is internally illuminated, optimistically reminding us of humanity’s potential to overcome even the most massive of challenges.
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The IRIS collection encompasses a series of pendants and wall fixtures with multiple expressions, from the single IRIS MONO through to the elaborate IRIS COMPLEX ARRAY. IRIS combines cool alabaster with the warmth of brass, delicately balancing smooth stepped cupping forms suggesting a steady heavenly ascent. In Greek mythology, the goddess messenger IRIS bridges heaven and earth. Born of sea and sky, she links gods with humanity, bearing a message of hope and beauty amongst the storm.
