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The cut that becomes light.
A 2026 TOKIMEKI collaboration places Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko glass above a machined metal base, giving the cut surface a different role in a room.
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THE WHV WORLD
Furniture & Lighting
Distinctive pieces that change how a room feels and works.
Our perspective on Furniture & Lighting
THE QUESTION WE BRING
What makes this design worth living with, and what distinguishes the particular edition or example?
OUR FIELD OF VIEW
- Authored furniture and modular systems
- Lighting and sculptural domestic objects
- Materials, editions and ownership
Each selection begins with a specific subject, a reason to care and evidence worth examining.
In view.
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Image: Gionata Xerra / FlosDiscovery
The hole in the marble.
Flos Arco puts overhead light where there is no ceiling fitting. Its most revealing detail may be the hole through its heavy marble base.
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The glass that catches the light.
Venini’s Tiara Luce uses a quilt-like glass surface to make light tangible. A traditional forming technique becomes something encountered in an ordinary evening.
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A cabinet that opens like a trunk.
Poltrona Frau’s Isidoro Ultime Notizie combines a drinks cabinet with the opening gesture of luggage. Fornasetti’s newspaper-and-butterfly imagery adds a second transformation, making leather resemble paper.
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The pattern is the joinery.
Tanihata’s kumiko screens make a geometric pattern from fitted pieces of wood rather than a surface decoration. Light passes through the result, making an old joining skill useful in contemporary rooms.
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The sculpture that lights a room.
Isamu Noguchi’s Akari gives paper, bamboo and light a sculptural life at home. A working lantern-making tradition keeps the idea connected to everyday use.
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Furniture that can change its mind.
The useful part of USM Haller is what happens when the room changes. A familiar storage system can be configured for another chapter.
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A lamp with a lifetime route back.
The Anglepoise Original 1227 connects a familiar silhouette to something less visible: a way to keep it working.
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The chair with an order card.
A Nakashima chair invites two kinds of looking: at the wood itself, and at the record of its making.
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The woman behind the Wisteria lamp.
Clara Driscoll’s design offers a more precise way to see one of Tiffany Studios’ most recognisable lamps.
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The stool built from one bend.
Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 has stayed in production since 1933 with three legs, a round seat and one structural idea worth repeating.
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A system that can follow you.
A shelf, a workspace, a different home. Dieter Rams’s 606 system makes the ability to change part of what you buy.
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