Troika's kinetic LED chandelier is a vision of the future

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Strictly speaking Thixotropes isn't a single entity, but eight "mechanized systems" of carbon, steel banding and LEDs which have been combined into chandeliers under two meters (around 6.5 feet) in diameter (Photo: Troika)

In the words of the designers, "each of them [is] shaped as a composition of intersecting angular and geometric forms that are made of thin tensed steel banding lined with rows of LEDs" (Photo: Troika)

What's remarkable is how even the effect of lighting distribution appears to be, and the way warm and cold light is targeted at particular parts of the structure, perhaps most effectively when one form sits within another, and is illuminated in a different hue - it's a magical effect (Photo: Troika) (Photo: Troika)

Close up, the steel banding is obvious; but from a distance the effect is rather one of a translucent forms that appear to made made of light itself (Photo: Troika)

In the words of the designers, "each of them [is] shaped as a composition of intersecting angular and geometric forms that are made of thin tensed steel banding lined with rows of LEDs" (Photo: Troika)

Thixotropes is apparently inspired by long-exposure photography, and the way it captures motion (Photo: Troika)

LEDs seem to be housed in conventional clustered lamps which illuminate the steel banding from beneath (Photo: Troika)

Troika's kinetic chandelier, Thixotropes, combines LED lighting, carbon and steel banding to stunningly beautiful effect (Photo: Troika)

What's remarkable is how even the effect of lighting distribution appears to be, and the way warm and cold light is targeted at particular parts of the structure, perhaps most effectively when one form sits within another, and is illuminated in a different hue - it's a magical effect (Photo: Troika)

Troika's kinetic chandelier, Thixotropes, combines LED lighting, carbon and steel banding to stunningly beautiful effect (Photo: Troika)

Article Summary

Let's play a game of word association. If I said to you "LED lighting", the chances are the first thing you'd say would be ... well, honestly, I have no idea. But if I were to guess, I think a lot of people would say bright, or efficient, perhaps cool, or possibly colorful. I would too. My hunch is that the word beautiful would be used much less frequently. But that's a perception that might soon change, if London design studio Troika has anything to say in the matter. Which it does. Its mechanized, kinetic and grand LED chandelier, named Thixotropes, is, quite simply, a beautiful vision of the lighting of the future.

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