Lighting design studio Trueing combines the utilitarian and the ornamental

Blurring the traces between the utilitarian and the ornamental is the design signature for lighting studio Trueing. The New York-based studio, helmed by self-taught designers Aiden Bowman and Josh Metersky, has steadily grown and developed since its founding in 2017, and even achieved viral standing on Tiktok with its recognisable Cerine lighting fixtures, an homage to the ever-present chain hyperlink. 

Slightly than bounce into the rigorous world design circuit, Bowman and Metersky have deliberately labored at their very own tempo. Their newest launch, a 12-strong assortment developed round a floral motif named Lilia, comes two years after Cerine, and was independently launched, and not using a commerce present or exhibition in sight.

Lilia lighting assortment by Trueing

‘For this assortment, we had been actually influenced by seeing the Blaschka glass flowers on the Harvard Museum of Pure Historical past. These glass flower specimens date again to the nineteenth century and had been used for scientific examine,’ recounts Bowman. ‘They received us fascinated about facsimiles of nature. We convey facets of nature into properties on a regular basis, from recent bouquets to floral prints. It appears barely banal, however we had been actually inquisitive about how we may protect the sensation of getting one thing alive and even fairly, but take a very totally different viewpoint.’

Usual from sprays of flower buds that includes hand blown glass petals that emerge from a gently serpentine silhouette, Trueing’s new design is as lovely as it’s technical. That includes a sandblasted exterior, reflective inside and mirror polished edges that create a multiplying impact when seen in individual, the extremely technical design is a charming steadiness between the futuristic and the literal.