PD26 Winner

Category:	Ceiling Lighting Units
Location:       British Columbia, Canada
Designers:      Bocci Design & Manufacturing inc.
Lead Designer:  Omer Arbel Bocci
Manufacturer:   Bocci Design & Manufacturing inc.
Photographers:  Fahim Kassam

“93 is a late work emerging from a decade-long interrogation of the relationship between glass and metal.
By calibrating their rates of expansion, we were able to work with the two materials without catastrophic failure. A thick-walled glass sphere is blown, and aluminum is poured manually, producing a fluid metal silhouette.

Light enters the glass wall and grazes the metal where they meet, expressing the act of making in a single gesture. 93 mirrors 113 (exhibited at the V&A, 2022), in which we deliberately disrupted that balance so the glass breaks away from the metal form,” shares Bocci Co-Founder Omer Arbel. 93 is part of Bocci’s ongoing investigation into the behavior of specific materials and their points of intersection.

Previously, works explored the meeting of materials through controlled compatibility. With 93, the inquiry turns toward tension and divergence rather than harmony. The materials are no longer coaxed to cooperate but instead allowed to assert their own physical boundaries.