Chris Delia is the gifted product designer behind Geelong’s thrilling new lighting studio, Sunset Lighting.

The apply just lately launched its inaugural assortment of handcrafted pendants, lamps, and sconces all comprised of recycled Australian hardwood timber. The supplies are basic however present an area with character by way of the mixing of sample, attention-grabbing form, and advantageous detailing.

Chris’ curiosity in timber will be drawn again to his early profession years spent constructing boats out of carbon fibre.

‘I like studying concerning the distinctive properties of various supplies and was impressed by how one second the carbon fibre will be cloth on a roll, and inside a number of hours it’s shaped right into a excessive efficiency piece of precision design,’ he explains.

One other job had a equally specialised focus — this time on leather-based. ‘I used to be all of a sudden working with well-known inside designers, producing works for oligarchs and sheiks, putting in leather-based partitions, flooring, and handrails in mansions and on tremendous yachts,’ says Chris.

‘I liked it as a result of it was actually inventive and infrequently difficult. I favored the steadiness of being respectful of a pure materials whereas nonetheless being playful with it by way of form, texture, and use of color.’

Chris later moved to Canada the place he headed up the manufacturing workforce of a giant furnishings and lighting design firm. ‘It was right here I learnt about not solely how you can design lights but in addition how you can manufacture them at scale.’

These experiences mixed gave Chris the know-how and inspiration to start out Sunset Lighting upon returning to Australia.

‘I knew I might take every part I had discovered and make lighting that I felt was reflective of being again in Australia: modern however casual, one thing extra laid again and playful than the work I had helped to provide overseas,’ he says.

Working alongside his accomplice Stephanie, who works in technique and operations and has a industrial mindset, Sunset Lighting was born.

Chris selected timber (together with Victorian ash, blackwood, and pink gum) because the apply’s main materials for its inherent Australian qualities that floor the designs on this panorama and create a way of place.

‘I additionally knew I didn’t wish to use new wooden, I’ve seen the waste that the furnishings business can produce so wished to minimise that as a lot as attainable. Every bit I make has had a life earlier than and I like that typically in a refined piece of lighting that historical past reveals by way of in a slight imperfection,’ he says.

Each pendant, lamp and sconce is made to order with Chris on the instruments.

From residential kitchens to industrial cafes, we predict you’ll be seeing much more of Sunset Lighting’s work very quickly!