Orbiter LED Ceiling Lamp

The Orbiter LED Ceiling Lamp was designed by Neil Poulton for exclusive Italian lighting company Artemide.

Scottish designer Poulton's work has gained such renown for its elegant simplicity that six of his pieces have been admitted to the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris. He has gathered no less than seven Etoile de l'Observeur du Design Awards and ten Red Dot Design Awards over the course of his 30-year career.

The Orbiter LED Ceiling Lamp beautifully exemplifies Poulton's coolly minimalist aesthetic. This lamp features an LED light source embedded within a disk that is suspended from a die-cast aluminium rod. The light emitted from the disk is angled towards the ceiling, where it cleverly reflects to provide gentle, indirect illumination. As the disk can be rotated around the stem, the angles and patterns of light and shade can be subtly manipulated with each change of position. It's a design that playfully calls to mind simple childhood science experiments and shadowplay - but now with a sleek, grown-up sophistication. The charmingly compact Orbiter LED Ceiling Lamp has a height of just 18cm and is 15cm across at its widest.