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Join the long list of superstar designers to collaborate with Parachilna and create your own custom lighting. Parachilna Custom allows you to order an existing light in a different colour, size or form, or to develop a brand-spanking-new design to add that extra pizazz to your project requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to wo...

At face value, Parachilna and flamenco dancing may seem like an odd pair. But they both hail from Spain, are known for their expressive art form and seek to perverse traditional skills and knowledge. Parachilna’s newest pendant, Manila, forges the connection further, taking its name from flamenco dancers’ traditional silk shawl. T...

Luchetti Krelle took a light touch to the design of Saké Manly, creating a relaxed harbourside restaurant and bar infused with the luxe minimalism of the Saké brand. Manly is Luchetti Krelle’s fourth Saké venue, following The Rocks, Brisbane and Hamer Hall, with Andreu World’s Smile chairs linking the four restaurants together....

Good design and energy efficiency can go hand in hand with LED lighting. Offering a greater lifespan and consuming less watts than incandescent bulbs, LEDs are a long-lasting, energy-efficient choice without any compromise on design. LEDs have a general life expectancy of 50,000 hours and consume 12 watts with 90 per cent of energy go...

Parachilna’s new lighting collection Gémo showcases the extraordinary glassblowing skills of the Venetians. Designed by Luca Nichetto, the lamp has a faceted shape and imprinted surface evoking a ball of yarn – hence its name Gémo (“yarn ball” in the Venetian dialect). The mouth-blown glass lighting collection offers a spin o...

When Parachilna debuted its inaugural lighting collection at Milan Design Week in 2014, it featured the work of Jordi Veciana, alongside that of Jaime Hayón and Stephen Burks. Veciana designed Parachilna’s Alistair and B15 collections with his personal penchant for geometric forms and luxury finishes. Spanish-born Veciana graduated...

Founders of Pattern, Lily Goodwin and Josh Cain, have been working with The Daily Edited (tde.) to design window installations and concessions and the company’s recently opened flagship stores in Melbourne and Sydney. We spoke to Lily about the design of the stores, which feature Jaime Hayon’s ABALLS lights by Parachilna. How did...

Parachilna in outback South Australia is a long way away from the Spanish design scene, but they both have one thing in common: their stars shine bright. Román Riera and Alfredo Valero established Parachilna in 2014 after many successful years in the lighting industry. Born from the designers’ dedication to decorative lighting, the...

A noticeable trend in commercial projects is to combine hospitality and workplace design principles to create highly functional office spaces imbued with the sophistication of a hotel. The New Work Project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has jumped on this movement, creating what the design team describes as “a design-led, service-orient...

Manhattan meets Melbourne at Kisumé, the Lucas Group’s newest hospitality venue designed by Wood Marsh Architecture with interiors by Fabio Ongarato Design. Kisumé means “a pure obsession with beauty,” and it is evident throughout the Flinders Lane restaurant and bar. Spread across three levels of a former 1950s office buildi...