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Architectural lighting, made slowly.

A small atelier on the edge of Florentin, producing fixtures in brass, bronze, alabaster and hand-blown glass — one project at a time, in collaboration with the people who will live with them.

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Next collection drop Helios II · 14 June 2026
The Helios I pendant — hand-blown alabaster cradled in spun brass.
SIGNATURE·Helios I
The first one

The pendant we are still chasing.

Helios was the lamp the atelier opened with — a single hemispherical alabaster diffuser cradled in a hand-spun brass yoke, with a soft 2700K core that warms a dining room without flattening it. Seven years on, every Helios still leaves the bench with the same number on it. We have not made one quickly yet.

Body
Brushed brass · 0.9mm
Diffuser
Hand-cut Italian alabaster
Dimensions
Ø 320 mm · H 480 mm
Output
820 lm · 2700K · CRI 95
Source
E27 LED · 9W (included)
Lead time
6 weeks from order
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Catalogue · I.

Collections.

Nine families, made to order in our atelier. Specifications shown for stock options — every fixture can be re-finished, re-scaled or hybridised in conversation with the studio.

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Catalogue · II.

Realised projects.

Six rooms — residences, a hotel suite, a gallery, a bistro, a small home, a jeweller's atelier — each lit slowly, in collaboration with the people who use them.

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Studio tool · III.

Draw a lighting plan.

Give us a room and a brief. We will recommend a specification — output, colour temperature, fixtures and a starting budget — drawn from how we would actually plan it in studio.

Plan

Awaiting a brief.

The atelier · IV.

Seven hands. One bench.

The atelier opened on Ha-Arba'a in 2019, in a single ground-floor room that had been a sail-maker's loft. Today we are seven — three machinists, two glassmakers, an electrical specifier and a studio coordinator — and we still work at the same long oak bench. We make about thirty fixtures a month. We have never sub-contracted a casting.

  • Materials — Israeli brass and bronze, Italian alabaster from Volterra, glass from a small Murano house, fabric cord from a weaver in Mantua.
  • Sourcing — All metal traceable to mill; alabaster invoiced by block; we visit the glassmaker twice a year.
  • Lead time — From 4 weeks for sconces to 14 for a chandelier, longer for bespoke. Nothing leaves the bench until we would be content to live with it.
  • Warranty — Five years on body and finish, ten years on the wiring harness.
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Begin · V.

Open a commission.

If you have a room or a brief in mind, leave us the outlines. We reply, by hand, within forty-eight hours.

Replies are written by hand. We answer within 48 hours, Sunday–Thursday.
Visit · VI.

Spend an hour at the bench.

Sunday through Thursday, between 10:00 and 18:00, we set aside one-hour slots for a quiet showroom tour, a longer private consultation, or a trade-only preview of the next collection. We will make coffee.

  • Showroom tour · 45 min · meet the fixtures, see the bench at work.
  • Private consultation · 90 min · come with plans, leave with a sketch.
  • Trade preview · 60 min · for specifiers, architects, and dealers.

Ha-Arba'a 11, Tel Aviv 6473911 · @lume.atelier

Journal · VII.

From the bench.

Short essays — on materials, on light, on the small problems the atelier is solving this month.

12 May 2026

On the second yoke of Helios.

We have re-machined the brass yoke for the seventh time this year. It is now 4mm thinner where it meets the cord, and 0.2mm thicker at the alabaster collar. A reader will not see the difference. A glassmaker will.

Studio note · 4 min
28 April 2026

Why we left 3000K behind.

For five years our default temperature has been 2700K. This spring, after a long conversation with a colourist in Berlin, we are moving the default to 2400K — closer to a candle, gentler on a dining table after midnight.

Essay · 7 min
14 April 2026

The Volterra block, in the studio.

A 38-kilogram alabaster block arrives once a month from Volterra. We open it at the bench, photograph the section, and let the room decide which fixture each cut will become.

Process · 5 min
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