Gem Resin

The Gem Resin was designed in 2000 in collaboration with Dinosaur Designs, the Australian design house known internationally for their work in solid resin. The brief was to translate the studio's signature material into something that held its own as a lit object: a small, weighty, glowing form that worked at table height without needing a shade, a wire or a visible bulb.

Twenty-five years on, every Gem Resin is still made by hand in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, by resin maker Brad Allen-Waters. Each lamp is cast from solid polyester resin, then hand-polished to a soft satin finish. The opal variant glows a clean, even white. The amber variant, lit from within, reads closer to a coal or an ember than a lamp.

Rated to IP64 and weighted to stay put in coastal breeze, the Gem has found its strongest audience in beachfront and terrace settings. You will find it at the Amanyara beach club in Turks and Caicos, on the cliffside dining terrace at the Four Seasons Santa Barbara, at Hilton Istanbul Bomonti, on the tables at The RuMa Hotel and Residences in Kuala Lumpur, and across the Ayers Rock Resort in central Australia.