Collins

Collins was designed by Peter Ellis in 1999, which makes it one of the earliest pieces in the NEOZ range and one of the longest-serving designs we still build today. The form is reduced to its essentials: a brushed stainless steel top, an acrylic diffuser, and a brushed steel base, with a warm LED hidden inside the column. There is no fabric shade, no visible bulb, and no hot spot. The light reads as a column rather than a point.

That simplicity is why the lamp has spent the last two and a half decades on tables at Rockpool in Sydney, Voyages at Ayers Rock, Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong and Conrad Rangali Island in the Maldives. It is easy to clean, easy to carry, easy to specify at scale, and rated to IP64 so it holds its own in poolside, terrace and indoor-outdoor settings as well as the formal dining room. It sits as comfortably on white linen as it does on dark stone or polished timber, and reads the same from every angle on the table.

The Little Collins keeps the brushed steel top and the acrylic diffuser, swaps the steel base for a more compact polymer one, and brings the whole lamp down to a lower stance for tighter bar settings and smaller tables.