Many lighting designers have taken inspiration from natural sources like the sun or stars, but Richard Clarkson has built a practice in homage to them. He calls his Brooklyn studio an “art and design laboratory specializing in celestial-inspired lighting products and installations,” and past works have emulated constellations, clouds, even lightning. His latest collection, Aurora, uses ethereal colored-resin panels to try to capture the experience of looking down on an aurora borealis from space, as seen in NASA satellite footage. The overlapping panels come in four different colors and six different shapes, letting you curate your light show of choice.

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Renderings by Stefano Giacomello