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Leaf Personal Light

Leaf Personal Light
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Designers

Yves Béhar Yves Béhar

Environment

98% recyclable
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LEED Credit Summaries

News and Awards

  • My Studio Environments, Vivo Interiors, Leaf personal light, and Celle work chair receive the GOOD DESIGN Award for 2006 from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture
    2006
  • Leaf personal light recognized as International Consumer Electronics Show 'Best of Innovations' Honoree.
    2007
  • Leaf personal light receives organicAWARD from organicARCHITECTS for sustainable design.
    2007

What's In It For You

  • Product Story

    The striking Leaf light puts the control in your hands—actually, in your fingertips. To adjust the intensity or change the light color from warm to cool, just slide a finger along a groove in the lamp base. And even though it's LED lighting, it isn't hot to the touch. We solved that problem, so you can position Leaf for task lighting, fold it to create ambient light, or straighten the arms for dramatic wall lighting. Without burning your fingers.

  • Be a Control Freak

    Nothing wrong with that when it comes to lighting. Leaf is the first lighting product that lets you choose warm mood light or cool work light, or something in between, along with the level of illumination you want. All with ridiculously simple and intuitive touch sensitive controls that help you make small adjustments easily.

  • To adjust, slide your finger. To turn the light on or off, just touch it. An integrated microprocessor even remembers the intensity and color variation setting that you selected the last time you used it and produces that same light when you turn it on again.

    The lower blade rotates 180 degrees and pivots 27-1/2 degrees forward and 23 degrees backward. The upper blade pivots 210 degrees—extend for direct lighting or fold for subtle, ambient illumination.

  • Distinctive Profile

    It looks like nothing else—except maybe a large leaf. Its thin aluminum blades produce the elegant profile, which give the light a sculptural, organic form. Choose from several colors to coordinate with a variety of settings.

  • Be Cool to the Touch

    LED lights usually become too hot to touch. We solved the problem without the usual fan and with a proprietary, continuous heat-dissipation system. The result is a light that works more efficiently and that you can touch anywhere.

  • Good memory. When turned on, the light retains the previous color and intensity settings.

    Energy efficient. Uses 8-9 watts of power, or 40% less than a compact fluorescent bulb.

    Long life. Allows up to 100,000 hours of use, eight times longer than conventional light sources.

  • Earth-Friendly

    Developed using our Design for the Environment protocol, Leaf uses less of the world's resources to give better light. Its 20 light-emitting diodes consume only 8 to 9 watts of power, about 40% less than compact fluorescent lights. And it sheds full light for a minimum of 60,000 hours, about eight times longer than conventional light sources.

    Leaf is made of 37% recycled materials and is up to 95% recyclable at the end of its useful life.

Design Story

  • "Leaf is designed to give the user a full spectrum of choices to express light's magical and sensory variations," says designer Yves Béhar. "It allows the human senses to become engaged by allowing the user to choose the intensity and color of light which best suits a functional need, mood or location."

    Béhar is a terrific example of a designer who understands the mix of problem-solving and creativity necessary to make genuinely better products. We collaborated with Béhar's San Francisco-based studio, fuseproject, in both engineering and design to produce a genuinely better lamp.

  • First, it's incredibly efficient. Leaf's 20 LEDs use 40% less energy than a 13-watt compact fluorescent bulb. And Leaf manages the heat produced by LEDs in a completely new way, so that a motorized fan—usually required to dissipate intense LED heat—isn't necessary. The Leaf LEDs stay cool to the touch through the use of a patent-pending heat distribution system.

    Small wonder, then, that Leaf has received numerous awards and been included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Musée National D'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA,-New York; and The Art Institute of Chicago.

  • It was also chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2007, which defined the selected products as "the coolest stuff from the most innovative minds in the world." Managing Editor Richard Stengel added, "When you're dealing with complex technology, you can't overestimate the importance of good, clean design." Leaf was included on the basis of its energy efficiency and sleek design.

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