I was reminded to write about some lights, recently shown as part of the IMM show, Living Kitchen, by Bocci, whilst visiting Attard’s Kitchens at Seven Hills in Sydney today – we’ve written previously about Allison and Michael’s new showroom but their lighting is excellent and well worth a look.
Bocci is a contemporary design and manufacturing house based in Vancouver, Canada, with a satellite company based in Berlin, Germany.
Unlike typical corporate structures, Bocci operates unconventionally as a co-operative community of designers, architects, craftspeople, technicians, agents, governance bodies, testing facilities, raw materials suppliers and fine shops. Their aim is to build a healthy, flexible and stable network united under the goal of creating practical but striking consumer goods of the highest quality.
The trend in contemporary manufacturing is to outsource production. In contrast, Bocci is committed to manufacturing at our Vancouver factory. They have a fully equipped glass blowing studio in the same building as their offices, warehouse and design studio, and off site locations for glass casting, ceramics and metal sand casting. Their designers, technicians and salespeople walk through the factory floor to get to their desks, and thus have an intimate and profound connection to their work. All these activities take place around a central courtyard with a very large tree, carved into the 5th floor of a renovated art deco former printing press building located close to Vancouver’s downtown, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
As a company, they are committed to participate in the speed of contemporary culture. They have structured the business to hold strong inventories, and have invested in a network of warehouses worldwide, such that the things they make are available with astonishingly short lead times and in many cases shipped within 24 hours of an order.
For more information visit www.bocci.ca or visit an Australian distributor at www.hubfurniture.com.au
