ROTARE PENDANT
Ivalo Lighting Inc.
www.ivalolighting.com

This pendant light, the first of a design series by architects, allowed LTL to explore the design potential of ruled surfaces, a way of producing a curved surface by means of multiple straight lines. Rotare pushes advanced metal forming techniques to the limits, requiring a CATIA finite element analysis (FEA) to successfully realize the form.

The first Rotare piece is a 52 inch long direct/indirect pendant that continues Ivalo's tradition of innovative design, superior craftsmanship, precision optics, energy efficiency and elegant form. The canopy is a projection of the rotated form onto the plane of the ceiling, detailed with a reveal to give it delicacy and to allow for recessed applications. Rotare is suspended with an elegant I-wire cabling system that eliminates the need for a visually distracting power cord.