Gunnar Lighting System: A Versatile Modern Classic
Designed by Urbidermis Santa & Cole, Gunnar is an adaptable urban and architectural lighting system that enhances outdoor environments with precise, context-specific illumination and cohesive, minimalist aesthetics.
Gunnar is inspired by the work of neoclassical Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund.
"In Gunnar, we're exploring hierarchy in lighting design to efficiently accentuate the different planes of the built environment. It's a flexible, precise system to define the function and experience of outdoor spaces' vertical and horizontal layers without requiring excessive, generalized lighting," says Jordi Muñoz, Chief Marketing Officer at Urbidermis Santa & Cole.
The lighting system centers around Gunnar's floodlight projector, a robust LED luminaire whose fluted housing subtly brings to mind the columns of Classical and Neoclassical architectural movements. As this refined aesthetic is applied across Gunnar's variety of mounting styles, and as its performance is tailored through Gunnar's variety of accessories, distributions, outputs and color temperatures, the system becomes a simple, beautiful and cohesive way to achieve myriad lighting needs.
Gunnar's systematic lighting approach centers around its floodlight projector, a robust LED luminaire that can be wall-mounted, catenary, or pole-mounted.
"The power of Gunnar is the framework it creates to make it your own," describes Landscape Forms Senior Designer, Brian Revoir. "The system builds out, from one simple and elegant luminaire, a range of mounting styles and applications to specifically suit your environment and your aesthetic."
Wall-mounted, catenary, or pole-mounted in a variety of heights with up to six projectors per single pole, Gunnar provides layered, multi-functional lighting in urban environments. Further customizability through adjustable mounting arms, different symmetric and asymmetric distributions, different outputs, 3000K and 4000K color temperatures, and diffuser screen accessories precisely ensures the right quantity and quality of light for the right context.
Gunnar provides myriad options for layered lighting in outdoor architectural and urban environments.
"What I find so beautiful about Gunnar is the ability to utilize one product throughout a whole project," describes Landscape Forms Lighting Sales Operations Group Leader, Chad Gleesing. "With these minimalist-style floodlights in different orientations and specifications, you can illuminate a large area with fewer poles doing multiple things at once-simultaneously highlighting a feature in one direction, and providing the right light to ensure pedestrian safety in the other."
Designed with versatility as its core tenet, Gunnar intelligently pairs aesthetic adaptability with its functional flexibility. By bridging traditional and contemporary design language, the lighting system offers a worldly presence with broad design capabilities.
Gunnar arose from the creative mind of Antoni Roselló, a late Urbidermis Santa & Cole author and master multidisciplinary artist. In designing the lighting family, Roselló was inspired by the work of Swedish architect and key representative of Nordic Classicism, Gunnar Asplund. Celebrating Asplund's compelling reinterpretation of classical architectural orders, Gunnar's aesthetic represents an elegant amalgamation of architectural styles which, in turn, enables the lighting system to be comfortably at home in more settings.
Equally elegant, minimalist and sculptural, Gunnar represents a modern design presence that complements virtually any context.
"You can see Antoni Roselló's sculptural touch in Gunnar's detailing," describes Landscape Forms Design Director, Ryan Heiser. "From afar, the Gunnar family is very clean, minimalist and compact in its form factor, but zooming in to the fine details, noticing fluting and artistic attention to detail, I'm very taken by the luminaires' simple beauty."