BROKIS Macaron Table Lamp PC1038

Lucie Koldová (born 1983) is a prominent Czech designer based in Prague and Paris. Upon completing her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2009, she moved to Paris and quickly established an international clientele. Her work, ever pure and charismatic, focuses on furniture, glass sculptures, timeless lighting collections, and objects of desire; her portfolio ranges from daily-use products, poetic gallery objects, and limited series pieces to conceptual and urban space designs.   Lucie is known for her traditional craftsmanship, attention to detail, and appreciation of the different influences and cultures that meld together in the French and Czech capitals. She combines glass with other noble materials and likes pushing proportions to their very limits to achieve remarkable simplicity and elegance. In 2010, she was named Czech Grand Design Discovery of the Year and two years later she won the Designer of the Year Award and the Elle Decoration Award for best lighting. Currently, Lucie is Art Director at BROKIS, with whom she has collaborated since 2010.

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.