{"id":8059,"date":"2014-01-17T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2014-01-17T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:39:55","slug":"modern-pendant-lamps-theater-of-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/modern-pendant-lamps-theater-of-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Pendant Lamps: Theater of Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Will Meyer and Gray Davis consider themselves \u201cmaniacs\u201d about the lighting in the spaces they design. If nothing else, Mr. Meyer, 45, said, \u201cIt needs to make people look attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n

But whenever possible, it should do a lot more. That\u2019s why their fixture of choice is often a pendant light \u2014 something that can be seen in the interiors of the Paramount Hotel<\/a> and the restaurant Harlow<\/a> in New York, projects recently completed by their firm, Meyer Davis Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pendant fixtures have so many functions, Mr. Davis, 50, explained. \u201cWe like the sculptural aspect,\u201d he said. And \u201cthey can be the focal point of a room, or can bring intimacy to a space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And in hotel projects, he added, \u201cWe use them on each side of the bed, which frees up space on bedside tables.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among their favorites are the hanging fixtures designed by Isamu Noguchi in the 1950s, which they have in their own homes. So they were excited to see Issey Miyake\u2019s IN-EI lamps, a contemporary version of that classic design, artfully arrayed in the window at Artemide, in SoHo.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Meyer said: \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to take an idea of something that everybody knows about and successfully reinvent that. This is one of the few we\u2019ve seen that does something interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The design wasn\u2019t the only thing that was reinvented, Mr. Davis pointed out. \u201cThey\u2019re made of recycled PET bottles,\u201d he said, referring to the reusable plastic.<\/p>\n

They also liked the Coltrane suspension lamp, from the Portuguese company Delightfull<\/a>, a dynamic piece they chose for the lobby of the Paramount Hotel. The effect it creates, Mr. Meyer said, is \u201calmost like looking into a flying flock of birds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Block 2 from Minotti, by Henry Pilcher, an Australian designer, is another \u201ctotally cool\u201d fixture, he said. \u201cIt is an amazing evolution of those industrial factory lights we\u2019ve all seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two men are also fans of Roll & Hill, a Brooklyn manufacturer whose fixtures they have put in a number of Meyer Davis projects. The Halo Oval Pendant by Paul Loebach, available through Matter in SoHo, is a good example of what makes them so interesting, Mr. Meyer said. \u201cThe scale is large,\u201d he said, \u201cbut the actual light source is delicate and small\u201d \u2014 something might not be obvious if you see it online.<\/p>\n

Mr. Davis offered a more romantic perspective. \u201cIt\u2019s a piece of jewelry that lights up,\u201d he said. \u201cLike a beautiful necklace.\u201d
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Will Meyer and Gray Davis consider themselves \u201cmaniacs\u201d about the lighting in the spaces they design. If nothing else, Mr. Meyer, 45, said, \u201cIt needs to make people look attractive.\u201d But whenever possible, it should do a lot more. That\u2019s why their fixture of choice is often a pendant light \u2014 something that can be seen in the interiors of the Paramount Hotel and the restaurant Harlow in New York, projects recently completed by their firm, Meyer Davis Studio. Pendant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2057,2056,2054,2053,1401,2055],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}