EDGE HOUSE CHANDELIER

Edge House is located in the Missouri Ozarks. Derek Porter Studio designed the comprehensive project lighting which led to two custom lighting elements: a chandelier over the dining room table and a custom stair luminaire. The custom chandelier over the dining table reflects the surrounding scenery, altering its material presence through day and night.

The chandelier, composed of 20 individual pendants having chrome plated cylindrical bodies, hovers over the dining table. In addition to providing task illumination for the table, the reflective surface of each pendant records the surrounding temporal light conditions during day and night. Abstracted micro-scenes of warm and cool light wrap each cylinder creating everchanging kaleidoscopic patterns of time-based light transitions. The chandelier is a luminous nexus, an intersection where natural and artificial light coalesce, where attention to these complimenting forces is brought forward in scintillating fashion to the viewer’s conscious awareness. The lack of exterior light at night results in an inky black darkness with momentary flashes of warm light from the interior. These fleeting patterns are further animated in relation to body movement – as people circulate through the space and transition from standing to seating positions, the stripes of color, light and darkness slide across the cylindrical forms. The custom flush-mounted ceiling canopy and thin suspension cable further reinforce the perceived lightness and hovering sensation of the cylindrical mass suspended over the table.     

Lighting Designer: Derek Porter Studio
Architect: Dake Wells Architects
Photographer: Derek Porter
Manufacturer: Corey Burkhardt

Awards
IESNA Merit Award, 2021

Details
New construction
Galena, MO

See LIGHTING section for additional information about the overall project lighting design.