In 1921 Bernard-Albin GRAS designed a series of lamps for use in offices and industrial environments. The GRAS lamp, as it was afterward called, was astounding in its simple, robust and yet very ergonomic design. There are neither screws nor welded joints in the basic form. In 1927 the Ravel company purchased the patent and started production of the GRAS lamps.
This year the stand featured a prominent role for 1970's suspension HERE COMES THE SUN by Bertrand Balas. Architect Dominique Perrault and designer Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost designed IN THE TUBE collection with the objective of it being utterly original, nearly unbreakable, timeless and perfectly durable. DWC Editions IN THE TUBE collection comprises big ideas, forms that are both free and constrained, and it comes in several lengths, diameters, and colors. Made of borosilicate glass and closed with aluminum stoppers sealed in silicon, the mountings are in stainless-steel which allow it to be used indoor and outdoor, as a suspension as well as on a wall or ceiling-mount. Both innovative and desirable is table and wall lamp ISP. A white glass sliding in and out of a beautiful brass tube. Just slide it out to be illuminated, slide in to return to darkness. Designer Ilia Potemine explains and demonstrates his poetic creation.