The Facet collection, the latest lighting release from Danny Kaplan Studio, is both unexpected and of a piece with Kaplan’s beautifully considered output. Guided by the precision of geometry, the sides and faces of these three new lamps seem to shift depending on where you stand, revealing slight changes in perspective. The Optical sconce, with its cube form, plays with dimensionality and illusion. The Angle sconce casts a warm downward glow from its triangular shape. And the Pyramid sconce, with its layered metals, blends a kind of severity with softness, as the studio puts it. The Facet series is made of slab-built forms in first-time materials for the studio: perforated brass with a patina finish, stainless steel, or white painted steel (though the studio has stayed true to its ceramic roots, hand-sculpting clay models at the start of the production process). Hard, defined edges and angles paradoxically create a mellow mood, an atmosphere that’s serene and soothing.

You could say the same thing about the studio’s new 4,000 square foot showroom, located in a pre-war cast iron warehouse building in NoHo. It’s almost like a meditative, calming exhalation that both resets and reinvigorates you. While the studio’s production facility remains based in Brooklyn, in a former bottling factory, the downtown Manhattan loft provides a reimagined home for Kaplan’s ceramic furniture and lighting — a domestic setting for the studio’s pieces, but also a “creative hub,” says Kaplan. “The neighborhood’s historic architecture and artistic spirit has always resonated with me.” Custom furniture made exclusively for the showroom mixes with rugs by Armadillo, chairs by Thomas Barger, and Sophie Lou Jacobsen vessels. Collaborations between Kaplan and designers like Joseph Algieri, In Common With, Stillmade, and Vince Patti of Lesser Miracle effortlessly fill the space. (The latter collaborated with Kaplan on a dining table so large it couldn’t fit in the freight elevator hence the hollow channel running down the center.)

Guests enter into an exhibition area that will keep changing; currently on display is the Delf collection – the six-piece wood and ceramic furniture series from Kaplan and Lesser Miracle that launched last May. The showroom is Kaplan’s residence as well (with his personal living space in the back portion of the loft). Visits are by appointment only, with a soft launch opening this month, followed by an official public opening in the spring.

PHOTOS BY WILLIAM JESS LAIRD