Float Suspension by Kinknot is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Éclairage Competition Category.

BronzeÉclairage· 2020

Float Suspension

by Kinknot

Client: Kinknot

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Éclairage Category

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The Design

About Float Suspension

Float est une suspension conçue pour les espaces intérieurs. L'abat-jour, façonné dans une feuille d'aluminium cintrée, flotte entre deux éléments cylindriques, laissant apparaître un interstice visible entre les composants. Les autres pièces sont en aluminium tourné et fraisé, avec une finition thermolaquée. La source lumineuse fait appel à la technologie LED, associée à un diffuseur en PMMA. Le luminaire mesure 1200 mm de diamètre pour 170 mm de hauteur. Float est suspendue au plafond par deux points d'ancrage, et un boîtier en aluminium de faible épaisseur dissimule le câblage. Aucune fixation n'est visible, et pourtant chaque élément peut être démonté et remplacé.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Float Suspension est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Float Suspension est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Float Suspension satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Ascetic, light and minimalist luminaire, floating in space and only with a few flexes creates a poetic, gentle and dynamic mood and fills surroundings with beautiful and warm light. The shade floats between two cylindrical parts and makes a clearance between elements that creates a beautiful tension.
Dimensions & Packaging: Diameter 1200mm, height 170mm, weight 11kg. Electrical specification: 18.4W, 3000K, RA86
Tags: "light", "pendant", "minimal", "float", "ascetic", "lamp", "space", "modern"
Production Technology: Shade is shaped using aluminum sheet bending technology. Other components of construction are mainly made from turned and milled aluminum. The light source uses LED technology and diffusor made from pmma. Aluminum parts are powder coated.
Design Challenge: Because at first it was made as bespoke lamp, the assembly was made in welding technic. After decision to put lamp in bigger market, the question of feasibility arose, but intention of clean and monolithic aesthetics remained. During design process a great consideration was shown for integrating technology components into the lamp design itself. It helped to avoid additional boxes on ceilings for power sources. There are no visible fasteners, but still every element can be detached and replaced separately.
Inspiration: Inspiration came from architecture and nature. It's like floating leaf in space, light and delicate, but in the same time it is a formant of space, the element of scale, the present, no noise, just beautiful relationship between space and object.
Project Duration: Lamp design process started in late 2017 as part of individual interior project. In 2019 it was put on serial production in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Operation Flow: The lamp is delivered already assembled. It hangs from the ceiling on two anchor points. Only 6mm diameter aluminum box mounted to ceiling conceals wiring. Lamp is controlled by a standard switch or dimer.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Kinknot
Team Members: Designers: Adomas Rimselis and Tadas Antanavicius
Image Credits: Darius Petrulaitis