Product Designer Boris Klimek's latest conception for Czech lighting brand Bomma is the Dew Drops collection. darc learns more about the design's inspirations and creation at Bomma's in-house glass making facility. Images: Martin Faltejsek and Bomma
Designed by Boris Klimek, Dew Drops is a unique collection of pendants from Bomma. Featuring an internal light source, each glass object presents a hint of iridescence, adhered tightly to hand-sewn bands of either vegan material or high quality natural leather. Having first worked with Bomma on the Pebbles collection in 2019, Klimek says of his second collection for the lighting brand: “The Dew Drops collection was created to capture the fleeting beauty of morning dew, clinging to blades of grass. We managed to transpose that magic to materialise the seemingly immaterial with lightness and grace. The delicate drops on the surface of its carrying straps hang in space like pearls in a necklace. The carrying strap is as essential a part of the lighting as its glass drops. They connect harmoniously and equally contribute to the overall appearance of the lighting.” In three words, he describes the pendants as “poetic, emotive, and magical”. He continues about the design’s conception: “Working with light, especially in combination with glass, is magical and endlessly inspirational. I had been thinking about the concept of Dew Drops for
a long time. Bomma then approached me to design a new lighting collection for them, so I tried to transform my idea into sketches. At this moment several people from Bomma joined the prototyping stage; every step of which was challenging as everything was new and different. A big thanks goes to the Creative Director of the brand Václav Mlynář and head of R&D Ota Svoboda, who played a crucial role in the development of Dew Drops collection.” Klimek likens the design process of Dew Drops to many of his other products’ journeys. “From the first ideas and sketches, I went quickly to verifying the proportions and modelling in 3D,” he explains. “Afterwards, I created visualisations that I showed to Bomma and they liked it. The prototyping process took into consideration Bomma's glassworks, where we tested the combination and proportions of used materials – leather, crystal glass, metal etc. The light source was the most challenging part. The Bomma team always develops the light sources themselves and it differs for every collection. It took us almost one year to develop the Dew Drops lighting, which is a success considering the technical difficulty of this collection.”
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