‘Varmblixt’, Sabine Marcelis’ cult, donut-shaped lamp for Ikea, returns in a brand new guise. Out there from April 2026, the newly reimagined ‘Varmblixt’ contains a good replace that features colour-shifting and dimmable gentle.
The now-iconic lamp was first launched in 2022, as a strategy to discover ‘the concept of how lighting capabilities inside the house’, Marcelis mentioned on the time. A part of a wider assortment that included lighting designs in addition to glassware, the unique ‘Varmblixt’ options orange glass and the choice for use as a desk or wall lamp (this model will stay a part of Ikea’s catalogue as soon as the brand new lamp is rolled out).
‘Varmblixt’ goes good: uncover Sabine Marcelis’ reimagined lamp for Ikea
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The brand new lamp contains a matte glass end with gentle altering in color to create totally different atmospheres inside a home inside. Utilizing Ikea’s Bilresa distant, customers will have the ability to management the sunshine’s chromatic palette, with a spread of 12 hues curated by Marcelis.
Color is on the core of the designer’s oeuvre, and this undertaking showcases her penchant for scrumptious pastels as the sunshine seamlessly strikes from a cool white to glowing amber, heat purple, gentle pink, cool lavender and turquoise.
‘We spent plenty of time fine-tuning the transitions between the curated colors,’ says Marcelis. ‘What makes this lamp distinctive is that switching between colors just isn’t a sudden change, however a really clean journey via all of the hues to get to the subsequent color. The sunshine slowly strikes via color to, in flip, rework the color of an area.’
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A high-tech interpretation of the design, the brand new ‘Varmblixt’ additionally connects to the Ikea House Good app via the Dirigera Hub, permitting full management of the sunshine’s shade and depth.
‘The main focus this time was on what extra we might discover inside the iconic type of the donut lamp,’ says Marcelis. ‘Color variation is one a part of it, however at its core, “Varmblixt” has at all times been about the way you expertise gentle. Within the authentic donut lamp, exterior gentle performed on the shiny floor and bounced superbly off it. With this model, the matt end lets the sunshine glow softly from inside. It’s a really pure, technical evolution of how gentle will be skilled.’
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‘“Varmblixt” […] has at all times been concerning the emotional elements of sunshine and Sabine’s means of shaping ambiance,’ provides Chiara Ripalti, Ikea’s lighting product developer. ‘With these new variations, we develop that concept with updates that allow folks discover emotion extra freely.’
As Ikea continues its mission in direction of a technological house (having just lately launched 21 merchandise suitable with common good house customary Matter), it additionally introduced a brand new, tech-based collaboration with Marcelis to be unveiled in 2027. Watch this area.
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