Greenway Pendant

Australia’s oldest lighthouse, – the Macquarie, near South Head in Sydney – was designed by the convict architect, Francis Greenway. The Greenway collection uses a system of components, referencing the elements typical of Australia’s historic maritime architecture.

The Greenway lighting system is made from metal fitting which conceals the light source, a metal disk, a series of handblown glass forms which diffuse the light akin to the “lantern room”, and a 3D printed, perforated lattice. The light source is a concealed warm LED with dimmable control options.

ADesignStudio is an award-winning lighting design and manufacturing practice, led by Alex Fitzpatrick. The studio is based in Sydney, Australia, and distributes internationally. The studio’s collections reveal a distinctly expressive approach to transforming space with light, using both traditional skills (glassblowing and metalworking) and contemporary lighting and manufacturing technologies, to find a perfect balance between the scientific and the poetic.

The poetic aspects of light are important. The objects we choose to live among, in our homes and workplaces, appeal to us for reasons that extend beyond function. A light can do just that: light a room or a page in a book. It can also be a memory of the way sunlight filters through the canopy of a grove of trees, or the experience of coming upon a bright patch of tropical bougainvillea in a city street; or it may contain a subtle allusion to an early colonial lighthouse and its convict architect. Or it may simply create, through the skills of a glass artist, a perfect space for contemplation by enveloping a reader in a pool of dappled illumination.

As a design-focus practice, ADesignStudio, works with lighting designers, architects and interior designers to create customisations within the product range for larger projects.