Rosa Bertoli in Wallpaper:
Jony Ive’s LoveFrom and Japanese company Balmuda unveiled the ‘Sailing Lantern’, a new portable lighting object born from their first collaboration and mutual admiration. Precisely engineered and crafted by Balmuda’s team in Tokyo, the design originated from Ive’s quest for a lantern for his sailboat.
Encased in a precision-machined stainless steel frame is a polished, textured glass module that conceals an LED centre. The shine on the materials and the precision with which they are refined make the 1.5kg object look like a piece of jewellery.
‘It’s not precious,’ Ive is quick to point out.
Sailing Lantern is available for $4,800 (€4,500) in a limited edition of 1,000, from balmuda.com/lovefrom-balmuda