Bocci Lighting

Bocci Lighting

Bocci Lighting 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 lighting 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 their 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 theirselves 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.

Though their pieces focus on the more emotional, irrational and romantic shades of the contemporary lighting design spectrum, they are deeply committed to rigorous and intelligent execution. They are not afraid of technical complexity, and are constantly searching for technical innovation. When they came to the conclusion that commercially available lamps did not meet their rigorous quality standards, they developed and are now manufacturing their own proprietary Xenon and LED lamps, which have longer lamp lives and lower failure rates than any available alternative. Their thirst for innovation translates into everything they do, ranging from the process of making the sculptural chandelier shades, to the design of the components that hold them together, to the lamps that are used to light them, and to the packaging that contains them.

To discuss your project or arrange to meet with our lighting designers, or simply to arrange to visit our design studio and showroom, please call us on 0161 207 0212 (Manchester) or 0207 118 0242 (London).