The Starfall light, designed by Anna Lindgren and Sofia Lagerkvist from the Swedish-based Front Studio, is a contemporary chandelier built on that feeling you get from looking up at a starry sky on a very dark night.
And that’s exactly what they did for months, laying on the ground in a Swedish forest as research for this project.
“The best ideas come forth when the mind is totally at peace. And the most beautiful way to quiet the mind is to be in nature and gaze at a star-studded night sky,” says furniture brand Moooi, for whom the studio designed Starfall.
While the chandelier is inspired by nature, its design is derived from an installation that Front Studio worked on for the Science Museum in London. Together with the European Space Agency, the designers created a simulation of the 800 stars closest to earth by hanging light sources from various heights, which would become the first technical exploration for the design of Starfall.
“Front created an upside-down chandelier comprising multiple ‘stars’, hanging from different lengths that create that same three-dimensional effect, as if you’re really stargazing,” says Moooi.
Designers Anna and Sofia say “the sky in those places was so much darker than in a city. The stars are so much more striking and prominent. Truly a magical feeling.”
Photos: Moooi
