BEEM

Graphic, contemporary and unlike anything else on the world’s ceilings, BEEM is a new brand family of LED lamps from award-winning product and industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson. Soft-launching at Milan Design Week 2018 at forward-thinking new design district Ventura Future – the design destination showcasing the products of tomorrow – BEEM presents two striking lamps designs, scheduled to enter production later in 2018.

BEEM seeks to reshape the world of lightbulbs through innovative combinations of pure form and the latest LED technology. The new brand is a collaboration between designer Samuel Wilkinson and experienced lighting entrepreneurs Chris Stimson and Bujar Shkodra.

Two years after their first meeting in a Shoreditch coffee shop, the trio have finalised the first two product ranges, and plan to introduce more in the coming years. The debut lamps – SMILE and CURLI – take advantage of the latest soft-filament LED technology, (allowing them to emit bright, warm light for up to 30 years, using minimal energy in the process), expressed through Samuel Wilkinson’s characteristic fluid modern forms, hand-made craftsmanship and devotion to detail.

SMILE is a distinct, graphic and modern glass bar of light fitted with a flexible filament attached to a ceramic base. Three shapes are available: a straight line, a U shape and a smile-like upward curve. CURLI is a swirl of light that takes its formal inspiration from the calligraphic flourish off the curlicue to create a continuous asymmetric coil that twists up and around the bulb holder.