Empyrean Series
Year: 2022 Commissioned by COLLECTIONAL Featured in the Lana Duplex
Empyrean draws from ancient cosmology (the highest heaven occupied by fire) and contemporary observations of light warping around black holes. The pendant lights illuminate blocks of resin, each edge rounded to bend and refract the emitted light.
The thickness of the resin showcases its translucency, while the curved edges contort light rays as they pass through. The effect suspends luminous bands within solid material, light appearing to drift rather than radiate from a fixed source.
Gallée experiments with light through material hues, transparency, and luminosity, treating resin as both structural housing and optical medium. The series includes two configurations, the Empyrean 01 and Empyrean 02, each varying in length, shifting how light pools and disperses within the fixture.
Gallée adopts warm colours for the resin filtering the warm LED output into amber tones reminiscent of a gentle sunset. The fixtures balance monumental presence with the quiet behavior of refracted light, built to anchor both residential and architectural scale.
Photography Credits:
Mathijs Labadie
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