Set to debut at WantedDesign 2025 in New York City, Toronto-based studio Anony‘s latest lighting seriesPolaemerges from a focused investigation into geometry and atmosphere. Referencing the quiet drama of tunnels and arches, the collection embraces minimal materiality while offering spatial depth through light. True to Anony‘s design ethos, Pola does not shout. Instead, it gently nudges familiar forms into unfamiliar expressions.
Christian Los Ongoing Dialogue with Geometry
At the center of Anony‘s work is Christian Lo, whose design practice prioritizes clean lines, measured restraint, and emotional resonance. With Pola, Lo continues this dialogue, reducing the circlea universally recognized shapeto its simplest half. In the hands of another designer, this move might risk oversimplification. But in Los work, simplicity is never an endonly a means to explore relationships between object, user, and space.
Rather than introduce novelty for noveltys sake, Lo reframes the everyday, drawing attention to how light interacts with form. The result is a collection that balances function and poetry, and seems as much about the light thats cast as the object that casts it.
Tunnels, Arches, and the Memory of Passage
The inspiration behind Pola comes from architectural spaces that are typically transitional and often overlooked: long corridors, tunnels, and archways illuminated from below. These are spaces where light doesnt merely illuminateit guides. By echoing this condition, Pola borrows from the visual clarity of such environments, treating light as both material and metaphor.
Each piece in the collection suggests a continuation of a line or a structure just outside the framehalf of a larger whole that the user completes imaginatively. The open forms and softened glow feel grounded in architecture, not ornament. Light flows outward, not inward, allowing for gentle, ambient warmth rather than spotlighting.
Material Restraint Meets Atmospheric Design
The materials are intentionally limitedaluminum, offered in a tight palette of finishesbut what the objects lack in material variety, they compensate for in atmospheric effect. Los design emphasizes diffusion over glare, and the structure’s openness invites light to escape in measured arcs.
In the collection, warmth is not a temperature but a gesturea suggestion of comfort in an otherwise stark formal composition. The objects are not centerpieces but instruments of subtle spatial transformation.
Quietly Functional in a Variety of Settings
The Pola collection was designed with adaptability in mindusable across residential, hospitality, or institutional contexts without overpowering the space. As sconces, floor and table lamps, single and multi-pendants, each piece is autonomous yet clearly part of a family.
Los careful calibration allows for installations that blend seamlessly into architectural environments while offering just enough articulation to suggest intention. In this way, Pola doesn’t seek attentionit offers presence.
Technical Sheet
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Collection Name | Pola |
| Designer | Christian Lo (Anony) |
| Launch Date | May 18, 2025 |
| Event | WantedDesign 2025, New York City |
| Typologies | Sconce, Floor Lamp, Table Lamp, Single Pendant, Multi-Pendant |
| Material | Aluminum |
| Finishes | Brushed Aluminum, Brushed Brass, Brushed Champagne, Matte Black, Matte White |
| Made In | Canada |