NL12 Pendant Light

Designed to light a large dining room table, cleverly fitted in a trompe l'oeil style, this luminaire is composed of twelve glass tubes, only one of which, operating like a power station, is the source of light, the other tubes relaying its diffusion by refraction and prism. No visible wires, no visible LEDs, no visible aluminium structure: NL 12 thus evokes a celestial beam that is both radical and poetic. To forge his aesthetic signature, Sebastian Summa has imagined, in order to suspend it from the ceiling, a pair of gallows-like brackets, calculated to perfectly balance the beam of tubes. This fixed equipment adds a post-industrial athletic touch to the whole, and is an obviously artisanal tour de force. This hanging lamp is at least 1.30 metres long and weighs 7.6 kilos. It is made up of twelve non-fixed glass tubes that can be positioned by sliding them around as required to create offsets or, on the contrary, by aligning them perfectly with each other. The hanging structure is available in a black finish (70 cm high brackets). NL12 is equipped with an integrated LED light source (2700K).
Sebastian, born in Bavaria, studied design at University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. He lives in Berlin.
It’s difficult to meet Sebastian in the design world. He works in his studio East-Berlin and is really a doer. Before the university he started as a blacksmith, in a world of scrap iron, metal and steel. His workshop is outside time, the work is the clock. It’s interesting to see in a rough surroundings, a sweet man, working on delicate objects.