Shaper PrentaLux | 2021-2022

Designers: 3D Printing Design Collaborative | PrentaLux - Printed Light | Cooper Lighting Solutions | Denver, CO, USA
Manufacturer: Cooper Lighting Solutions, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Cooper Lighting Solutions introduces a new way to manufacture lighting products using 3D printing technology, which allows for beautiful designs, textures, and shapes that are distinctive and bespoke to meet the aesthetic and performance needs of the designer’s vision. 3D printing has been around for some time, but the way in which Cooper Lighting Solutions is approaching this technology allows for the designer to control the outcome of the shape, color, and texture of the light.

New colors that are on trend, can easily be introduced. Textures that inspire a designer can be applied. And geometric shapes that are within the limits of the printer’s capabilities can be formed. Design development of these products is within days or weeks, not months or years. The Shaper PrentaLux series is the definition of how aesthetics is driven by the designer.

The designer can select from a series of several textures and then select from over 18+ neutral and calming colors. On premium projects, the designer can create their own shape, and design their own texture, within the guidelines of the proprietary 3D printing capabilities — innovation at the hands of the designer.

This decorative pendant product family initially consists of 16 lamp-based products for hospitality, as well as 4 integral LED products for performance-based decorative lighting. This is an iterative process, not definitive, thus allowing new collections, colors, and textures to be introduced as fast as they are created.

Similar pendant products on the market are made with materials that may cost more in both manufacturability and raw materials. For example, some of the 3D printed textures might emulate ceramic textures … With 3D printing technology, a designer can be inspired by a texture, create it digitally, then apply it to a lighting fixture.

The PrentaLux products currently can be recycled (the shades) and the extruded material has a 22% lower impact on carbon footprint than aluminum.

Shaper PrentaLux products are also BAA, or Buy American compliant. The 3D printed materials used are significantly lighter than their metal equivalent, requiring less fuel to transport, which has a 35% lower impact on carbon footprint.