Design Narrative
Intima
Light gathered at the innermost point.
The Inspiration
Intima takes its name from anatomy, specifically the innermost lining of a vessel, the layer closest to whatever is flowing through it. It’s a fitting name for a chandelier built entirely around networks: the thin, branching structures inside a body that carry signal and light to exactly where they’re needed.
Look closely at those networks and nothing about them is symmetrical. They split, thin out, and reconnect at uneven intervals, each branch finding its own path toward a cluster of endpoints. It’s structure without a blueprint, and it becomes more beautiful the closer you look.
Ben designed Intima around that idea: a frame so fine and so branched that it nearly disappears into its own structure, with light gathering only where the branches finally meet.
Where The Idea Comes From
The Same Structure, Twice
The Design
Where Structure Gathers Into Light
The frame alone is almost invisible, a web of impossibly thin branches with nothing to catch the eye. It needed a counterpoint, so at the point where each branch finally rests, a globe of hand-blown glass gathers, clusters, and holds the light.
The globes aren’t placed on a grid. They cluster the way anything organic clusters, more where the structure is dense, fewer where it thins out, each one turned by hand to send its light exactly where it’s needed.
Intima comes in horizontal and vertical frame configurations, plus a wall-mounted sconce, and is available in a range of finishes. Whichever you choose, the idea stays the same: a network so fine it nearly disappears, made visible only by the light gathered along it.
Yours To Aim
Every Globe Turns By Hand
Each Murano glass globe sits on its own rotating joint. Twist one, turn the next, angle a whole cluster until the light gathers exactly where you want it. The bronze network stays as it was drawn, while the direction of every point of light along it is yours to choose.
Set the globes once and leave them, or return to them whenever you want the light to fall a little differently.
One Design, Three Forms
Built To Work In Any Orientation
The branching frame takes more than one shape. It stretches wide as a horizontal chandelier, falls into a long vertical column, or gathers close against the wall as a sconce, and in every form the same network carries the same light.
Made To Be Seen From The Inside Out
Intima is built the way its namesake suggests, from the innermost structure outward: a network first, and light only where the network finally comes together. However you configure it, whatever finish you choose, and however you turn each globe, that idea stays exactly the same.