BOCCI

Sculptural Lighting

Bocci is a lighting design and manufacturing company based in Vancouver and Berlin. Founded in 2005 under the creative directorship of Omer Arbel, Bocci is committed to fostering a lateral and open-ended relationship between creative direction and craft.

The company launched with one lighting design—14—which became an instant classic, design staple, and bestseller. Today, Bocci organizes its expansive range of lighting designs into families characterized by underlying aesthetics and materials—molten metals, blown glass, porcelain, and ceramic. The company’s growing portfolio of sculptural lighting is developed, engineered, and fabricated in-house through an infrastructure calibrated to provide full control over technique, quality, and scale.

grand foyer featuring bocci 14 series pendant lights

glass blower making glass orb of an 84 series lighting design by bocci

bocci 76 series pendant lights and wall lights in situ

Bocci Designer

OMER ARBEL

A trained architect, Omer Arbel, cultivates a fluid position between the fields of architecture, sculpture, invention, and design. The focus of his work includes the intrinsic mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials and the exploration of light as a medium.

Bocci currently offers ten families of ambient lighting (14, 16, 21, 28, 38, 57, 73, 76, 84, and 87), two design objects (19 & 25), and one collection of electrical accessories (22). Each family is named numerically to reflect its place in the chronology of Arbel’s creative process; very few of his designs have commercial viability, hence the gaps between the series numbers.