Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

Pure and graphic, the award-winning Sticks Collection by Arik Levy is characterized by glowing aluminum rods that rotate on their own axis, directing light precisely where needed.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
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The namesake sticks connect wall to wall, floor to wall, wall to ceiling, or from a ceiling into space. Its cutting-edge arrangements offer a customisable toolkit for integrating light elements into an interior.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

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Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

Levy was inspired by the idea of linking various parameters of a room, thereby fusing technology, light, and architecture.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

ā€œIt means we can stop thinking about a hanging light or a wall light or a floor light,ā€ he explains.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

ā€œSticks is about lighting space, which changes the perception of light and the way a fixture behaves in spaceā€”itā€™s more like a sculpture instead of a wired element.ā€

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

The designer aimed for a rigorously pared-down profile, yet one that contains all the necessary elements. ā€œIt barely exists,ā€ he says of the unadorned silhouette.

ā€œThe only thing that exists is the light itself.ā€

Through its minimalist form and the focused illumination it generates, it creates and disrupts architectural planes, transforming linear light into an abstract art installation.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

Critical to Sticksā€™ design is the ability to rotate the poles, allowing endless flexibility and brightening dead zones.

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection
Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

ā€œBefore Sticks, you couldnā€™t bring light to a specific corner, and orient it 5.7 degrees to the left,ā€ says Levy. ā€œWe couldnā€™t place light horizontally and control the light emission. Now we can. And we can change it at any given moment with no tools.ā€

Vibia The Edit - Stories Behind: The Sticks Collection

Levy likens Sticks to an adjustable laser beam and calls it ā€œthe only system that adapts to the user rather than the user adapting to the system.ā€

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