Ice

The Ice has quietly become one of the most specified lamps in the NEOZ range, and it has done so without much help from a story. Peter Ellis and Jackie Chan designed it across 2005 and 2006 as a piece of pure geometry: a frosted pressed-glass form, omnidirectional, with no shade, no visible base and no decoration. What it offers a designer or an architect is the absence of detail. The lamp sits on a table and lights it without bringing any other vocabulary into the room.

That restraint is what has put it on tables at Bennelong inside the Sydney Opera House, at Hugo's Manly and Whalebridge on the Sydney waterfront, at Rivea by Alain Ducasse at Hotel Byblos Saint Tropez, and at Crown Towers Melbourne. The Ice works as comfortably under a sandstone arch as it does on a marble terrace, and the same lamp specified across a 150-cover room reads as a single quiet line rather than a hundred separate objects.

It is also one of the few NEOZ pieces that works in both round and square forms within the same collection, so designers can mix shapes across a room without breaking the visual language.