Few luminaires illustrate the current trend to miniaturize and conceal light sources and their underlying components like Lamina. The modular pendants from Barcelona-based manufacturer Santa & Cole are so stream-lined, they're practically wispy, resembling a series of delicate bird feeders. The line was created by Antoni Arola, who conducts his own lighting research and has been nicknamed "a poet of light" for his skill in marrying function and style. He describes Lamina's refined profile as simply "a line of light and a thin metal sheet." But it is carefully engineered to emphasize reflected illumination and maximize the glow of its tiny, hidden light sources with the generous white arch of the shade. The canopy size can be specified as narrow as roughly one foot and as dramatically wide as almost three feet. The unassuming linear housing contains rows of warm and dim-mable 2700K LEDs, and what appears to be a paper for the shade is actually sheet metal and a layer of polycarbonate, which acts as the reflector. Thin power cords give the units (which come in lengths of 38 and 70 inches) a kitelike buoyancy and make it easy to combine them in new configurations.
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