The newly launched Loon lighting assortment is Coil + Drift’s first assortment designed and constructed solely in-house from conception to manufacturing. The idea and inspiration of the fixtures is rooted within the Catskill Mountains. It’s there that the model opened their 3,000-square-foot studio in 2022, and the place all of Coil + Drift’s lighting is now produced. What Loon represents is a brand new place-driven design language for the model’s founder, John Sorensen-Jolink.
Early sketches of the gathering had been impressed by owl wings, leaves, and dry seeds. These preliminary concepts had been then become sand-cast varieties made by an area metallic forge. Sorensen-Jolink describes the ensuing lighting as an exploration of what it’s been prefer to dwell near nature in a neighborhood that also values and honors craft.
Loon’s eight fixtures are break up into two households: Foundry and Ridge. Foundry depends on sand-casting to create its weighty, textured varieties that resemble Trumpet flowers dangling from the ceiling. In the meantime, Ridge appears to be like to the examine of a curved, symmetrical, leaf-like type impressed by the outstretched wingspan of a hen for the alternative – lightness.
The gathering expands upon a spread of metals and residing patina finishes, a multi-colored verdigris on brass that features hues of inexperienced, yellow, and pink. Corten covers forged iron to create intentional rust. Sorensen-Jolink’s exploration of hand-applied metallic finishes is now out there throughout all Coil + Drift’s fixtures.
Foundry Medium Pendant
Foundry Medium Pendant
Foundry Massive Pendant
Foundry Small Pendant
Foundry Small Pendant
Foundry Sconce
Foundry Sconce
Ridge Chandelier
Ridge Chandelier
Ridge Pendant
Ridge Sconce
Ridge Sconce
Ridge Sconce
To be taught extra about Coil + Drift’s Loon lighting assortment, go to coilanddrift.com.
Images by Zach Hyman.
