WE MADE A CHANDELIER OUT OF POSCAS - HERE’S HOW WE DID IT!
By stephen
February 11, 2016
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ambience was commissioned to produce one of our Posca Chandeliers by Dankor Architecture for the fit-out and design of Two Birds Cafe in Collingwood, Victoria.
Made with 40 Posca markers with 1.5W LED lamps, each Posca has a colour flex matching the colour of the marker.
The iconic Posca marker enjoys a cult like following with artists and designers, both young and old.
Poscas are used as a tool to create many wonderful things, so we decided to re-use Poscas themselves to create a feature for our new showroom window project ‘Eye Spy’.
A Posca Chandelier Lighting – a product that is not meant to originally be lit can be far more difficult than creating a light from scratch. Plus on many lighting designs, the technical aspects can be an afterthought. We therefore sourced the best components for this project to ensure a high quality of light distribution, and also to maximise efficiency and minimise maintenance.
In all we used forty different markers in five vibrant colours – Pink, Red, Light Blue, Yellow, and White. It has a LED light source, with the lamps sitting inside the marker to make them fully illuminate the Posca’s original colour through the lid from within. The coloured power cable is a 2-core flex that also matches the Posca paint colour for each particular marker.
The forty markers are specially arranged and suspended from our specifically-designed mounted chandelier disc. What’s remarkable about this light is its energy efficiency. Combined, all the lamps use just 28 watts of power, less than half of a normal household globe.
The way this light has been executed demonstrates a solid understanding of the technical aspects of lighting, and what can be achieved with sound technical background and imagination. And with the majority of Melbourne’s landfill sites containing primarily plastic-based products, it’s an example of what we can do with used and empty materials.
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So, how was it made? Watch and see for yourself
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POSCA CHANDELIER
ambience
PROJECT
Dankor Architecture
Location
Two Birds, Collingwood
Photography
Ben Glezer
VIDEO
ambience + Tim Hiller
TITLES
Ken Sum
MUSIC
Ending by Sheeba