Windows filter ever more vivid gleams as darkness progresses, giving glimpses of what happens beyond their boundary. Busy streets, places, and paths intersect, people meet. It is a true nocturnal urban story imagined by Preciosa together with designers Michael Vasku and Andreas Klug, narrated by the new Signature Design Crystal Links lighting system.
The rhythm of the city that never sleeps and the charm of the metropolis that comes alive with the dark have indeed been a source of creative inspiration, materialized by Bohemian glass artisans working by hand. The ancient glassmaking tradition—about 300 years old—marries the most advanced technology in the brand’s facilities nestled in the Crystal Valley in northern Czech Republic.
It reveals the symbolic and aesthetic power of decorative lighting with suggestive and emotional experiences. A dance of metallic rods, more or less intricate, shows at the ends a crystal bicone with a three-dimensional surface.
Inside, a layer of silver enhances the reflections of the light, which, when injected, passes through the geometric glass mass and transforms it into a source of illumination, reflecting bubbles or cuts made by hand with extreme precision. The choice between dynamic or static functionality (RGBW) creates various white options, while special in-house developed LEDs allow for the use of thin 2-Core cables, for more refined and clean aesthetic solutions.
Crystal Links also offers great design flexibility, with the possibility to customize at will not only the arrangement of each composition, achievable in different scales, but also to modify structural elements, such as the hand-cut decoration on the components and the metallic finish of the supports. Naturally, it also allows selecting different methods of lighting.
Such agile and flexible development of bespoke lighting as that of Crystal Links, possible across all Signature Designs, leads to a responsible approach toward lower environmental impact. Being able to modify the initial project at any time: adding components, changing the composition, or even completely redesigning it to adapt to new spaces.
