Lucie Koldova

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“Light is a phenomenon; it’s something that you cannot fully understand. It’s very emotional - a strong source of energy, and that fascinates me.”

When, in 2018, Lucie Koldova became the first Czech designer invited to design the Das Haus installation for imm Cologne, she chose to make ‘light’ the central, unifying, theme of her installation. This was entirely natural, as light has been the central theme of Koldova’s work and life many times.

Born in 1983 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Lucie Koldova attended the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design before moving to Paris to work with Arik Levy studio for a year. In addition to her work with the studio, she also pursued her own design projects and experiments, culminating inKoldova’s first lighting designs--with Dan Yeffet--for Brokis: Muffins and Balloons.

Though versatile in her ability to work with media, Koldova’s favourite medium by far is handblown glass, which has made her collaboration with Brokis--including her appointment as Brokis’ art director in 2014--so fruitful. From her studio, which she founded in Paris in 2012 and has since moved to Prague, Lucie Koldova crafts each luminaire to sculpt light and create a sensual experience for the observer.

Perhaps the most notable element of Koldova’s work, aside from its clean, pure beauty (if anything about her work can be apart from that), is how she interweaves time-honoured craft with cutting-edge technology and techniques in her creations. This innovative ability, combined with her fascination with light itself, is what lies at the heart of Ivy, Capsula, Big One, and so many of Lucie Koldova’s remarkable designs.

Lights Designed by Lucie Koldova


Ivy Horizontal 5 Suspension

Nature and its life-giving beauty and strength serve as the model for a unique lighting concept called IVY. Just as the plant grows and climbs up the walls of a house, creating multiple images, IVY offers a special system of modular components, thanks to which it can be used to achieve a highly innovative take on decorative lighting in both vertical and horizontal compositions. The collection features three sizes in opal or smoke glass. Variable, elegant, and precise in workmanship all the way down to the smallest detail, IVY is a high-tech lighting concept well suited to both commercial and residential applications. In intimate home settings, for example, a single elegant branch can be used, or multiple branches can be joined together to create a curtain of light. IVY has many forms and justly takes its place among artistic, so-called bespoke, lighting installations.	Brokis	No

Ivy Horizontal 5 Suspension


Capsula Triangle Suspension

Capsula is a sophisticated and exhilarating light bearing resemblance to a plant cell or seed. The nucleus of the piece is a tubular triplex-glass LED light source, developed by Brokis, that transects the inner shade and translucent external shell to form a notional axis. The layering and overlapping of these three distinct components give rise to dramatic 3D optical effects. The end caps fasten the components together and serve as anchor points for the creative dual suspension straps, which also conceal the power cable and allow for variation in the final positioning of the light. The Capsula collection is offered in sets as well as individual lights that can be combined per customer requirements. From spring 2018, Capsula is fitted with special integrated connectors developed by Brokis to facilitate installation and cleaning.	Brokis	No

Capsula Triangle Suspension


Ivy Floor

Nature and its life-giving beauty and strength serve as the model for a unique lighting concept called IVY. Just as the plant grows and climbs up the walls of a house, creating multiple images, IVY offers a special system of modular components, thanks to which it can be used to achieve a highly innovative take on decorative lighting in both vertical and horizontal compositions. The collection features three sizes in opal or smoke glass. Variable, elegant, and precise in workmanship all the way down to the smallest detail, IVY is a high-tech lighting concept well suited to both commercial and residential applications. In intimate home settings, for example, a single elegant branch can be used, or multiple branches can be joined together to create a curtain of light. IVY has many forms and justly takes its place among artistic, so-called bespoke, lighting installations.	Brokis	No

Ivy Floor


Macaron Small Table

The Macaron table light pays homage to the beauty and complex structures of crystalline stone. Enclosed in opposing domes of delicate handblown glass, the stone becomes a moonscape afloat in its own cosmos. The light source casts its glow upward from the onyx base to energize the meandering chalcedony veins in the centre onyx plate and create a subtle and mesmerizing lighting effect. The concept is based on the principle of illuminating stone, and the name refers to the light’s similarity in shape to the famed French meringue confection. Natural imperfections in the glass and the diversity of structures in the stone make each light a unique original. The purity of the natural materials and the artisanship applied in processing them have given rise to a light of extraordinary ambience. Produced using traditional techniques, Macaron is characteristic of the distinctive and enduring aesthetic of the Brokis brand. Macaron comes in three sizes – the largest of which also makes an attractive floor light – and in several glass colour options with either white or honey onyx. The collection offers an alternate version featuring a centre plate made of kiln cast glass shards in combination with a wooden base.	Brokis	No

Macaron Small Table

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