Product Story
The Ardea are the great heronsthose elegant birds with the long, infinitely flexible necks. Inspired by these majestic birds, Yves Béhar designed the Ardea personal light to be infinitely adjustable. Its ingenious neck design lets you direct Illumination right where you need iton paperwork, a keyboard, or a good book. And like the herons, Ardea is kind to the earth.
Form Follows Function
Louis Sullivan said it; Ardea embodies it. The lamp's fluid aesthetic is a direct result of its mechanical performance. Flexible hinges at the base and head, continuous with the rigid structure, allow infinite direction of the light and significantly expand both the range of motion and light output. The Ardea neck can extend from a task position of 18-1/2 inches to 34-1/2 inches.
Put it Anywhere
It isn't just the neck that makes the lamp so flexible. A range of attachment brackets allow Ardea to be freestanding or clamped to a work surface, or mounted on Action Office panels or Ethospace and Vivo frames and their tool rails. The compact fluorescent bulb has a reflector for even illumination distribution in any position.
Environmental Enlightenment
Ardea was developed for energy efficiency and to meet our own stringent environmental protocol. So all materials and manufacturing processes aimed for minimum environmental impact.
The Ardea personal light is part of The Be Collection, a group of products that connect people to their work in new and better ways. San Francisco designer Yves Béhar, of fuseproject, wanted the Ardea personal light to both reflect nature and have a minimal impact on it.