2.18.15 | FLOS releases an innovative and unforgettable pendant light. Always imaginative, Paul Cocksedge, the young, London-based designer, created Shade as an unconventional solution to the clutter typically associated with connecting light fittings such as intrusive wires, cables and switches. The pendant itself has no bulb or electrical wires – it’s simply a shade, as the name states, with the light source, instead, coming from the floor below.
 
It’s something you need to see to believe.

The magic of Shade is that the light appears to glow effortlessly from a floating lampshade. But, the light source doesn’t come from the paper shade at all. Instead, an LED floor fitting housed in a small black aluminum box shines light upwards into the shade, which is in turn invisibly suspended from the ceiling by thin nylon wires.