Introducing Lighting Designer Christopher Boots

Christopher Boots has launched his new lighting design studio offering bespoke lighting art. Driven by a love of nature and light, expressed through designing and creating beautiful, unique lighting, Boots' work is both raw and elegant, brutal yet refined, made of primal shapes that
evoke some of the most direct human expressions.

Using a blend of classic artisan techniques, Boots' lighting is deceptively simple and for the most part, understated. The initial collection features five designs titled Simple I, Simple X, Simple +, Simple Y and Simple Z, each reflecting their name‐shapes. Made of materials including copper, zinc, iron, carbon and silicon, each piece is a statement, not simply because of the size (starting at 1300 mm wide) but for the striking boldness.

Thinking that the Simple Series is the sum of Boots would be a mistake. The luxury and magnitude of his two signature pieces, ORP and Diamond Ring, can only suggest at what the future has in store for this new talent.

Diamond Ring is a ring of quartz crystals hand attached with neodymium rare earth magnets around twin circles of warm white LED lamps, allowing the crystals to be rearranged. Ranging in size from 450mm to 2100mm, Diamond Ring weighs between 8 and 39 kg. It is a mystical ring that insists on a closer look.

ORP stands for Oblique Rhombic Prism; made from iron, gallium, silicon and carbon. Using efficient warm white LED lamps, the dimensions (1530mm x 630mm) make ORP equally at home on the floor of a warehouse apartment as it is in the foyer of a hotel. ORP illuminates in an illusionary manner, playfully challenging the eye to look again.

Trained in Industrial Design, Christopher Boots has a background in product design engineering. All the lights are hand made in Melbourne using a broad variety of techniques from a team of artisans, such as glass blowers, coppersmiths, ceramicists, sculptors, and bronze casters, ensuring a commitment to quality.

Having started his career with Geoffrey Mance, then maintaining the Mance legacy after his passing in 2007, Christopher began to pursue his own design practice in early 2011.

His driving force is to give birth to his long‐held ideas and an innate desire to bring beauty into the world, combined with inherent enjoyment in the thrill of lighting design. This is his first collection.