This new version elevates the Billy TL concept with materiality.
The Billy TL Ilse Crawford Edition was designed by London-based designer and creative director Ilse Crawford for Kalmar Werkstätten. In this refined version, the original’s unstained oak and coloured lacquer give way to a rich rosewood stem set on satin-brass feet. The 17.5-centimetre lampshade features a duotone finish—a matte black exterior paired with a satin brass interior—introducing a warmer, more ambient quality to the lamp’s directional lighting.
Crawford’s meticulous attention to detail is evident throughout, from the thoughtfully chosen materials to the textile power cable, colour-matched to complement the overall palette. While the lamp retains its honest construction and subtle anthropomorphic form, the Ilse Crawford Edition expresses a distinct sense of sophistication, humility, and warmth—hallmarks of Crawford’s globally celebrated design ethos
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Ilse Crawford is a designer, teacher, creative director and founder of Studioilse. She also founded the department of Man and Wellbeing at the Design Academy Eindhoven, and was its head for two decades. By choosing to address true human needs (not manufactured ones), she has pioneered humanistic design in its real life application to environments, objects and experiences.
Kalmar"Kalmar has established the practice of closely collaborating with prominent architects to create chandeliers and other cast bronze objects in Austria, Europe and the United States."
Founded in Vienna by Julius August Kalmar in 1881, Kalmar first specialized in the production of handcrafted objects of cast bronze. The company soon established the practice of closely collaborating with prominent architects to create chandeliers and other cast bronze objects in Austria, Europe and the United States. Before long it was presenting custom-made wares at international exhibitions and recognized around the world as a premium foundry.
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