Kdln

Admittedly, the Italian company Kdln was founded in 1996, but today already counts as one of the leading lighting manufacturers worldwide.

Kdln commissioned famous designers for their impressive lighting creations – Karim Rashid, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, or Paolo Navone are only a few names that supported Kdln on their way to success. But the lamps not only convinced us with their functional aspects: They illuminate rooms in a downright spectacular fashion – and are even eye-catchers when they are switched off. This is usually due to their sculptural character that lets the Kdln lamps look like pieces of art.

One of the most famous designs by the Italian lighting manufacturer is the Abyss table lamp, especially because of its unique, organic shape. It combines bending Plexiglas with a high voltage LED strip. This way it can be coiled around itself, stand upright like a sculpture, or lie flat on the ground. The Shakti 250 floor lamp is one of the most copied lamps of all times. However, the special thing about the original is its unique manufacturing process, called Co-Extrusion. This makes the light emitted by the lamp body always shine white – even if the lamp itself is actually coloured.

In the meantime the Yoga floor lamp or products from the E.T.A or Atomium collections are known worldwide and viewed as renowned designer objects. The latter addresses the physic's smallest known form of existence: The atom. So it's no wonder Kdln lamps are also exceptionally popular in the world of media and can be found in numerous international film productions.

Kdln continuously researches intensively on the processing of new materials – today the name stands for unique lamp design and innovative manufacturing technologies, pioneers in the entire industry. Some of the most important research results are the aforementioned Co-Extrusion and Selective Laser Sintering – a process that turns a source material in powder form into three-dimensional structures by sintering.

Beauty, sensuality, individuality – three features that accompany every single lamp by manufacturer Kdln in perfection.