When Schoolhouse companions with what we’ve beforehand known as “Brooklyn’s most-loved lighting studio,” we’re all ears. New York-based Roll & Hill, based by artistic director Jason Miller, has been crafting elegant, industrial lighting since 2010, and—as of immediately—they’ve paired up with Portland model Schoolhouse for the discharge of 4 design-forward lighting items.
Schoolhouse’s lighting choices have made their impression on AD for a while, and the Bento assortment is a pure extension of the playful designs they’re recognized for, infused with the magnificence typical of Roll & Hill’s catalog. “Schoolhouse is understood for its modern tackle industrial types, whereas Roll & Hill is understood for elegant, fashionable designs,” as Miller beforehand acknowledged. “We wished to make one thing that felt proper within the Schoolhouse assortment however refined in a method that’s typical of Roll & Hill.”
As many nice concepts do, the collaboration started with a gathering of minds over espresso, when Miller and the previous Schoolhouse CEO Alex Bellos bonded over their love of fine design. The pair share an analogous ethos relating to approaching bespoke designs for a US market: fashionable silhouettes, colourful palettes, and industrialism infused with an surprising component of playfulness.
This assortment exemplifies these beliefs, integrating Corbusier’s midcentury penchant for contemporary supplies, sharp geometry, and his trademark “architectural polychromy”—a 63-color strategy to harmonious design—with Donald Judd’s vibrant Seventies palette. “The colours of these Donald Judd items really feel fully modern to us immediately and related,” Miller says, referencing the olives, muted reds, butterscotch yellows, and ecrus that outline the gathering.
And because the title implies, the Roll & Hill staff seemed to classic Japanese chrome bento packing containers to tell the modular steel shades seen in every design. Every industrial steel piece maintains the article’s utility whereas chromatic plating enhances its aesthetics.
The chandelier is a notable spotlight: an oblong fixture, variegated with six colours—each gentle and darkish—is framed by heat oak and polished off with reeded glass for ambient heat. It seems to be just like the fragmented, vibrant colours and industrial framework of Unite d’Habitation, an residence constructing designed by Corbusier in Marseilles.
The Bento assortment reimagines basic design in an anachronistic method—the geometric silhouettes, chrome, Pennsylvania oak, and matte-painted metal packing containers might really feel proper at dwelling in a contemporary showroom or a ’70s-inspired dwelling. Regardless if these areas describe yours, the gathering seems to be at dwelling in all interiors—from coastal, to nation, to modern. You may store all 4 variations at Schoolhouse immediately.
