CROMA
A three-piece chrome lighting family that reads as sculpture when off.
- LIGHTING
- CHROME METAL
- INTEGRATED PRODUCT DESIGN II
Croma was developed for an Integrated Product Design course at Óbuda University in Budapest, during my Erasmus+ exchange.
The brief asked for a coherent lighting family for an interior space. The challenge was to make three typologies, desk, standing, and wall, read as the same object without any of them feeling like a literal rescaling of another.
Inspired by Mid-Century aesthetics and Frank Lloyd Wright's organic forms, Croma blends soft curves with crisp edges to create a calm, sculptural lighting family without visual clutter.
The underlying reference is Falling Water: heavy horizontal planes resolving against soft vertical flow. Croma compresses that vocabulary into a pebble and a stem.
Form exploration moved from rigid, geometric heads to the final soft, pebble-like shade. The goal was an amorphic head resting on a sharp, architectural stem.
The same vocabulary carries across desk, standing, and wall variants. Silhouette and proportion do the typology-switching, so the family reads as one object across three roles.
Chrome metal was selected for a thin, elegant structure and a highly reflective surface, vital to the Liquid Architecture concept.
The light source is a 3000K LED strip with a diffuser, soft and warm. The head carries the light; the stem carries the sculpture. Function and form stay in separate layers.
Dimensions were developed across all three variants with continuous radii (R35 to R130) so the head reads as one form from any angle.
A ball-joint at the neck gives the desk version full positional freedom; the standing and wall versions use vertical-only tilt for focused illumination.
Seen together in a concrete setting, the family reads as a small chrome landscape: tall stem, crouched pebble, and an asymmetric sculpture hung on the wall.
