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Artistry, craftmanship and Czech glassmaking

tradition associated with the inventiveness and creativity

of respected international designers. Light and the

beauty of glass. Emotions and skills. Such are the

Lasvit Collections.

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Láska — Love / Svit — Light

The Lasvit Group is a leading

designer and manufacturer of

bespoke light fi ttings, feature glass

installations, and award-winning

collections.

OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GLASS INTO BREATHTAKING LIGHT AND DESIGN EXPERIENCES

Leon Jakimic founded Lasvit with a single vision – to create the perfect experience through the quality of light, glass, and design. The list of Lasvit’s art pieces includes hand-blown objects in private residences, public spaces and luxurious hotels as well as in high-end boutiques and extraordinary interiors. Lasvit is currently developing and producing a wide range of glass panel sheets for the architecture industry.

Lasvit’s commitment to creativity and innovation has resulted in creative collaborations with some of the world’s most celebrated designers including Ross Lovegrove, Nendo Studio, Arik Levy, Fabio Novembre or Michael Young.

Lasvit projects span the globe from London, Paris and Prague, to international cities including Moscow, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Singapore. Projects vary from glass sculptures for private residences, to large-scale installations for luxury boutiques and hotels. The company has 10 international offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America.

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Introduction / 10Design Lighting / 12

Lighting Sculptures / 44Limited Edition / 72

Designers / 90Contacts / 94

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The chateau was intentionally chosen for a photo shoot for its unique atmosphere, which combines splendor and decline together. This created a perfect spiritual and aesthetical environment with which to contrast to our current collections. We are pleased to have the possibility to, symbolically at least, contribute to its rescue by renting this unique place.

Týnec Chateau comes from the beginning of the 18th century and, in the spirit of Baroque landscaping, is on the brow of a hill as a prominent landmark. The architectural value of the current building, in consummate Baroque style, is among one of the most precious in the Czech Republic. The fusion of architecture with the landscape (one of the Baroque ideas) is taken to the maximum here – the chateau spans over the entrance driveway. Together with the park and several adjacent historical buildings, it creates an enclosed area. The architect of the chateau, unknown for a long time (confirmed in 2002) was the renowned Giovanni Battista Alliprandi. This is one of his largest and most important constructions; others include Lobkovic Palace (today the German Embassy in Prague). We can see the origins and existence of such a chateau in a Šumava foothills village as a materialization of the “dream of a mad Baroque cavalier”.

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�DESIGN LIGHTING

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Created by famous designers easy to assemble

and fi x with defi ned size, shape, canopy and set of colors. Only minor

exceptional defi ned customizations are possible.

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GLITTERS /BY GABRIELA NÁHLÍKOVÁProvocatively ice clear “pleated” lamp-shades with right angle cranked legs stand in contrast with the ornamental composition of shadows that appear on the walls after you switch on the light. The classical design together with an optical projection merges into an unexpected form of peculiar “romantic functionalism”.

Light, its reflections on the sharp-cut edges of glass and shadows are the main means of perception and depicting of the space and matter providing possibility to seize them and create an outstanding atmosphere and mood at the same time. The shadow and light are not of material substance by themselves but yet define them, reflect, hide and unveil them even though they are only an optical illusion – an insubstantial postscript. Shadows are virtually all around, but only those thrown by the Glitters collection are capable of creating neat and magnificent make-up of the space, day and night. Light, translucent texture of the glass and striking expressiveness have the ability to call forth memories but also enhance plastic beauty of the room and make it real, more real, for the shadows that always reveal more than the light itself.

Glitters

07G090-00A Table lamp half L 230 × W 200 × H 210 × OH 390 mm

07G090-00B Table lamp Dia 310 × H 210 × OH 390 mm

10G005-00 Floor lamp Dia 310 × H 1400 mm

07G090-05 Pendant 1 Dia 320 × H 300 × OH 805 mm

10G007-00 Pendant 2 L 515 × W 320 × H 300 × OH 805 mm

10G004-00 Pendant 3 L 700 × W 320 × H 300 × OH 840 mm

07G090-01 Wall sconce L 230 × H 210 × OH 390 × projection 220 mm

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Press lamp

12X007-00 Pendant Dia 90 × 450 mm clear

12X007-01 Pendant Dia 90 × 450 mm smoke

12X008-00 Floor lamp Dia 140 × H460 mm clear

12X008-01 Floor lamp Dia 140 × H460 mm smoke

12X009-00 Floor lamp Dia 140 × H630 mm clear

12X009-01 Floor lamp Dia 140 × H630 mm smoke

PRESS LAMP /BY NENDO

The press design is availabe in two types: a pendant lamp and a floor lamp. In this design, glass tubes are pressed as though they have been pinched, and the light source is fitted into the narrowed space that results. Unusual in the fact that it does not rely on a metal form, the compression of the glass produces a soft, organic form and imbues each lamp with a singular appearance.

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INHALE LAMP /BY NENDO

The lamp was formed by blowing glass into the form of an air bubble then sucking the air away. Ordinarily, glass is made by blowing air into the molten material. The inhale lamp, on the other hand, comes from the act of inhaling. It‘s a form created by negative air pressure.

Inhale lamp

12X004-00 Dia 410 (approx) × H315 mm clear

12X004-02 Dia 410 (approx) × H315 mm opal

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Hydrogene is a highly versatile architectural system of illuminated glass pieces. Combinable, artistic elements in various shapes create a wide range of possibilities for use in interior decoration as well as lighting design. Symbolic of the movement of liquid, air bubbles in water, and the fluidity of glass, this design delivers sufficient light with a modish style. Hydrogene, designed by Lars Kemper and Peter Olah exclusively for Lasvit, brings together an architectural arrangement of light elements with a special bubbly texture that is illuminated by a series of LEDs reflecting in the adjacent mirror components. The textured, luminous surface of these unique, contemporary fittings creates a playful show of light that boasts an incredible depth of radiance.The thoughtful system of light elements provides ambient yet concentrated lighting for architectural spaces. The design of Hydrogene allows convenient augmentation with both circular and rectangular frames and fixtures to create the perfect gallery of light. A simple pendant style fitting serves as a ceiling lamp while other styles include mountings for vertical walls to create a light-grid or compact lighting elements, like a table lamp, for illumination of a dedicated work space. Individual panels can create wall art and artistic surfaces for bars, walls, and partitions.

Hydrogene

11X001-00 Dia 750 mm

11X001-01 Dia 500 mm

11X001-02 Dia 380 mm

HYDROGENE /BY LARS KEMPER AND PETER OLAH

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Prague Estate Theatre Palais Garnier Metropolitan OperaLa Scala Bolshoi Theatre

NEVERENDING GLORY COLLECTION /BY JAN PLECHÁČ & HENRY WIELGUS The Neverending Glory collection refl ects nostalgic emotions and interprets opulent candle chandeliers in new way to symbolize prime moments of appreciation and glory. In individual silhouettes it is possible to recognize iconic chandeliers from fi ve of the world’s most eminent concert halls and theaters; La Scala in Milan, Palais Garnier in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, but also the Czech Republic’s Estates Theater in Prague.

Neverending Glory Collection

13X008-00 Bolshoi Theatre Dia 550 × H 780 + L mm clear / opal

13X009-00 Metropolitan Opera Dia 500 × H 410 + L mm clear / opal

13X010-00 La Scala Dia 550 × H 600 + L mm clear / opal

13X011-0 Prague Estate Theatre Dia 440 × H 730 + L mm clear / opal

13X012-00 Palais Garnier Dia 510 × H 555 + L mm clear / opal

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JAR RGB /BY ARIK LEVY

Jar RGB is a lighting project connecting thin colorful glass blowing techniques and the idea of RGB color mixing. Using white glass for one of the hanging jars allows it to turn into a large light bulb generating the light for the entire fi xture. Observing one jar through another and the space surrounding them gives one a unique and everlasting discovery of color superimposition.

Jar RGB

13X004-00 Jar 3 Dia 305 × H700 + L max 2000 mm opaque white, green, blue / opaque white, green, red / opaque white, red, blue

13X005-00 Jar 7 Dia 465 × H700 + L max 2000 mm opaque white, red, green, blue

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LABYRINTH /BY ARIK LEVY

The Labyrinth is inspired by fl uidity, connections, nature and relationships… The fabric covered colored electric cables enter the Borosilicate glass tube and exit at diff erent locations from which light bell form shades are hanging. The labyrinth stem can be placed in various locations along the wires and create a sensation of suspension in space.

Labyrinth Small

13X006-00 Dia 320 × H 967 + L mm clear

13X006-01 Dia 320 × H 967 + L mm clear glass sandblasted, color

13X006-02 Dia 320 × H 967 + L mm clear glass cut decor, metal coated

Labyrinth Large

13X007-00 Dia 500 × H 967 + L mm clear

13X007-01 Dia 500 × H 967 + L mm clear glass sandblasted, color

13X007-02 Dia 500 × H 967 + L mm clear glass cut decor, metal coated

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�LIGHTINGSCULPTURES

High quality design pieces with possible

customizations. Sophisticated and luxurious

products are usually more diff icult to assemble.

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Uovo Small

11R002-00 Dia 880 × H 1200 × OH 1500 mm perla nera

11R002-01 Dia 880 × H 1200 × OH 1500 mm smoke

11R002-02 Dia 880 × H 1200 × OH 1500 mm gold

11R002-03 Dia 880 × H 1200 × OH 1500 mm silver

UOVO /BY RONY PLESLLike something from a fairytale, Uovos or “Eggs” sparkle like a radiant and mystical gem in a faraway land. These reflective art glass lighting sculptures shines like a mountain of precious rounded mirrors, capturing nearby objects and multiplying them to infinity.Uovos exudes matchless charm and creativity due to the fact that it’s been designed in two pieces with exceptional technique. One of the sculptures, Uovo d’argento, comprises silver eggs, handcrafted by silvering clear blown-glass components from the inside. The matching piece, Uovo d’oro, features golden eggs, with the colouring achieved by silvering the insides of amber glass components. At the large version the finished designs are nearly two meters high, 1.2 metres wide, and 130 kilograms in weight. There is also smaller version of the Uovo designes available.

Uovo Large

11R001-00 Dia 1200 × H 1637 × OH 2100 mm gold

11R001-01 Dia 1200 × H 1637 × OH 2100 mm silver

11R001-02 Dia 1200 × H 1637 × OH 2100 mm smoke

11R001-03 Dia 1200 × H 1637 × OH 2100 mm perla nera

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BUBBLES IN SPACE /BY JITKA KAMENCOVÁ SKUHRAVÁFine matured Bubbles popped up from the art of the Czech glassmaking designers and glass-work masters, always fresh with a versatile reflexive tone, smart, space friendly and always of an outstanding aesthetic class. The object can fulfil the function of lighting fixture as well as it has a power to fill up the room with specific atmosphere. Its remarkable conception makes it impossible for the viewer to perceive it only in a practical sense. Multiplicity, spatial make-up, an abstract form of it and a light installation ensure this emotional lighting whirl with a stir of emotion. The sphere, the bubble, in other word, which stands for the determining shape of the object, is also the natural constituent of the glass material and obvious part of the matter. Its surface reflects the world around and transforms the image of it due to its ability to cast optical spells prompting the viewer’s imagination into the plays of light, shape and motion.

Popularity of Champagne wine steadily grew, among other reasons, for the bubbles in wine somehow speed up the flow of alcohol into the blood. The Bubbles in Space by Lasvit are the Champagne among all spatial lightings, the fizz that really gets you drunk with stirring emotion flowing freely into your mind.

Bubbles in space

07J090-20 Dia 750 × OH 1250 mm clear

07J090-58 Dia 750 × OH 1250 mm clear + amber

07J090-00 Dia 1000 × OH 1450 mm clear


07J090-59 Dia 1200 × OH 1650 mm clear


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GROWING VASES /BY NENDOExtraordinary, playful, fresh, never seen before, impractical, illogical are words that can be used to describe Growing Vases yet it still doesn’t capture its essence. There are no words to express the whimsical nature of this lighting installation.Nendo and Lasvit collaborated to create an art piece, which conveys the quixotic appeal of glass as something impractical and incomplete yet provides a breath of fresh air and opens up new possibilities. Created with Czech Bohemian glass, this lighting installation alludes to a whimsical glass forest fi lled with abstract fl owers and branches.The principle of a fl ower and a vase here is turned upside down. By turning the pipes into the fl owers and branches and by blowing the glass into a vase, suddenly the vases are blooming from fl owers instead of fl owers blooming in vases! Growing Vases breaks conventions and symbolises the birth of life.“We decided to take the brief in a playful direction, and to suggest both breathing and the incomplete by displaying the metal pipes used by glassblowers, still attached to the glass objectsthat they were used to make.” – Oki Sato

Growing Vases

11X003-00 Dia 1000 × 1400 mm clear glass with sandblasting

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And Why Not!

13X013-00 Dia 1200 (max 1500) × OH 1700 mm clear

AND WHY NOT! /BY RENÉ ROUBÍČEK René Roubíček´s chandelier designed for Lasvit named by its author „And why not!“ refers to his lifelong experimentation and searching compositions and forms incarnated in glass. The chandelier´s emotionally intense sculptural form resembles a fl ash and is an evolution of Roubíček´s core designs based on dynamic abstraction. Light gliding on large smoothly polished surfaces while absorbed by the mass of the glass creates a unique atmosphere.

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PLISSE CLOUD /BY MAURIZIO GALANTEMaurizio Galante as one of the world’s most famous haute couture designers was inspired by timeless plisse fabric. The fashion elements, softness and typical movement of fabric are here transformed into glass. The smaller object is based on the technique of Plisse, which rotates around its own axis. The impressive larger one is based on layering cracked desks.

Plisse Cloud

13X018-00 Small Dia 500 × H535 mm + L artistic fused clear glass

13X025-00 Large Dia 1340 × H1035 mm + L artistic fused clear glass

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Galaxy Luminia

13X030-00 Amoria mixia Dia 1300 × H 1500 + L mm artistic hand-blown glass

13X031-00 Cascadia lumina Dia 700 × H1100 + L mm artistic hand-blown glass

13X032-00 Quadrix lenitas Dia 1200 × H1500 + L mm artistic hand-blown glass

13X033-00 Perplexion besfi x Dia 1300 × H1400 + L mm artistic hand-blown glass

13X034-00 Anvilix omnia Dia 300 × H1000 + L mm artistic hand-blown glass

The small Big Bang. History has encountered a new era which has explo-ded into this extraordinary chandelier. Seemingly disparate decorative components are connected into a playful assemblage of forms, materials and stories. Galaxy Luminia is like a new living species and, until The Big Bang, lives its own independent life.

GALAXY LUMINIA /BY BOŘEK ŠÍPEK

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�LIMITED EDITION

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Special unique designs that Lasvit created with

top designers, only limited production is possible.

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HOMUNE /BY MICHAEL YOUNGThe table consists of a hand-blown table leg and a hand-blown table top made from clear crystal. Lasvit team fi rst developed a specifi c blowing technology to create this product. The table leg is constructed by 36 separate glass fractals, with 6 diff erent forms repeating 6 times. Each of the 36 pieces was fi rst hand blown and then they were all connected into one piece to represent a fractal structure.

Homune

12K074-01 Dia 1200 × H 720 mm clear / colour can be customized

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PATCHWORK /BY NENDO

It fi nds its inspiration in the patchwork system of layering, with diff erent kinds of glass cut to complement one another. Patchwork – glass lamp and Patchwork – glass vase combine the fi ne cut techniques of Bohemian glass with the ancient production method for sheet glass. In this case, a variety of objects already decorated with traditional cut glass patterns were reheated, sliced open and then reattached to each other to create one large object.

Patchwork

13X021-00 Pendant Dia 240 mm × H 240 mm + L clear artistic hand-blown glass

Vase 1 Dia 140 mm × H 270 mm clear artistic hand-blown glass




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OVERFLOW /BY NENDO

This piece derives from the unique forms created when the free-fl owing glass liquid hardens in place. The glass masters place plate glass into a frame with one section missing, progressively heat the glass until it becomes molten, and allow the molten glass to drain from the void in the form. When they permit the glass to harden again, the edge responds to surface tension, creating a table with a surface that looks like a pool of water.

Overfl ow

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INNERBLOW /BY NENDO

This piece is inspired by the way glassblowers draw a lamp of molten glass into the tip of a metal pipe and create a form by expanding the glass with their breath, as it is blown down the metal. The glass masters expand the glass in a square metal form, and leave it in place rather than removing it. They then fl ip the form: the metal mold becomes the table’s legs, while the glass becomes its fl at top surface. Each table is unique because each piece of handblown glass is unique.

Innerblow

12X005-00 500 × 500 × H 300 mm table clear / white coated metal

12X006-00 1400 × 400 × H 300 mm bench clear / white coated metal

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OURDESIGNERS

Gabriela Náhlíková Arik LevyPeter Olah &

Lars Kemper

Jitka Kamencová

Skuhravá

Michael Young

Rony PleslBořek šípek

René Roubíček Jan Plecháč &

Henry Wielgus

Maurizio Galante

Oki Sato (Nendo)

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OUROFFICES

Headquarters / Nový Bor / Czech RepublicLasvit s.r.o. náměstí Míru 55 / 473 01 Nový Bor / Czech Republic T+420 481 120 810 / F+420 481 120 622 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

Flagship Showroom / PragueLasvit s.r.o. Komunardů 32 / 170 00 Prague / Czech Republic T+420 222 362 990 / F+420 481 120 622 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

Hong KongLasvit Limited / H.K. 8F / The Hennessy / 256 Hennessy Road / Wan Chai / Hong Kong S.A.R. T+852 2866 1234 / F+852 2866 2212 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

SingaporeLasvit Pte. Ltd. / Singapore 9 Loyang Way #05-01 / Singapore 508722 T+65 6542 9422 / F+65 6542 5040 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

ShanghaiLasvit Co. Ltd. / ShanghaiSuite 430 Apollo Building / 1440 Yan An Road / Shanghai 200040 / China T+86 21 6133 1813 / F+86 21 6133 1890 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

DubaiLasvit FZE / Gulf Office 16316, JAFZA 16 / Jebel Ali Free Zone / Dubai / UAE T+971 4881 4546 / F+971 4881 4547 E [email protected] / www.lasvit.com

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