Cloud Kurz Pendant Light

Cloud Short pendant light – cloud sculpture by Candela Cort for LZF Lamps Valencia

A floating cloud of mesh fabric and light, handmade in the LZF manufactory in Valencia. The Cloud Kurz Pendant Light by LZF Lamps translates the motif of a passing cloud into a homely Pendant Light. A white, water-resistant mesh fabric is stretched over a flexible inner structure into an organic silhouette that is slightly different every time. Inside sits a transparent acrylic diffuser that distributes the integrated LED light outwards softly and without glare.

The Short version is the more compact of the two Cloud pendant lights: around 100 cm high, with a soft, oval volume. This makes it particularly suitable above the dining table, coffee table or kitchen island in a classic living space – and anywhere a calm, quiet light sculpture without harsh point light is desired.

Design & inspiration

Cloud is Candela Cort’s attempt to make the most fleeting thing in architecture visible: the cloud. Instead of choosing a closed, technical form, she works with soft drapery, slight asymmetry and a material that filters light rather than directing it. Each shade is modelled by hand in Valencia – the finished form emerges from the interplay of tension, fabric and the hands of the manufactory’s staff. That is why no two Clouds are ever quite the same.

The Short version implements this concept in a rather horizontal, closed cloud shape: a calm, broad volume that softly illuminates the room downwards without dominating it.

The designer – Candela Cort

Candela Cort is a Spanish designer based in Valencia whose work is characterised by an unusual combination of sculpture, textile and light. Instead of strictly geometric forms, she looks for organic, often poetic images – clouds, swarms, waves. With the two families Cloud and Candela she has designed two of the most atmospherically extraordinary lights in the collection for LZF Lamps. Both live from the interplay of translucency, drapery and the acrylic diffuser inside, which carries the LED light softly outwards.

Material & workmanship – the LZF manufactory

Unlike LZF’s typical wood veneer lights, Cloud consists of a white, water-resistant mesh fabric combined with a transparent Acrylic-Diffusor inside. In the manufactory in Valencia, the mesh fabric is stretched over a flexible inner structure and modelled by hand into an individual, cloud-like silhouette. The fine folds and volumes are not created industrially but by the hands of the manufactory’s staff – which is why every Cloud is a one-off with its own shape.

When switched off, the shade looks like a floating, quiet sculpture in warm white. When switched on, the acrylic diffuser distributes the integrated LED light softly outwards – the mesh is illuminated without glare and gives the room a diffuse, calm light. The black metal canopy and black coaxial cable form a deliberately understated counterpoint to the textile volume.

Like all LZF lights, Cloud is made in the brand’s own manufactory in Valencia. Production is designed for durability and repairability.

Use & effect

Cloud Short is particularly well suited above the Dining table (recommended suspension height approx. 70–90 cm above the table edge), above coffee tables, kitchen islands or sideboards and as an atmospheric single object in the living room, bedroom or entrance area. Thanks to its organic mesh form, it fits equally well into modern, minimalist interiors and more classic rooms with textile materials – curtains, rugs and upholstery gain a luminous counterpart in the Cloud.

We recommend using it wherever a weiches, diffuses Raumlicht is more important than a pinpoint accent. In combination with indirect lighting in the ceiling or a dimmable floor lamp (e.g. Lola F by LZF), a very calm, homely light is created. The integrated LED is dimmable – so the lighting mood can be adjusted precisely to the time of day and occasion.

Cloud Kurz vs. Cloud Lang

The Cloud family comprises two sizes with an identical material and light language, but a very different spatial effect:

• Cloud Kurz (this light): approx. 30–55 cm diameter × H 100 cm – compact, rather horizontal cloud shape. Ideal for rooms with normal ceiling heights (2.40–2.80 m), above the dining table or as a solitaire in the living area.
• Cloud Lang: approx. 30–55 cm diameter × H 150 cm – vertically elongated version. Ideal for high rooms, stairwells, atriums and lobbies where the Cloud can unfold its full sculptural effect.

Both models are identical in material, LED technology and voltage – they differ only in height and the resulting spatial effect.

Technical data

• Dimensions: ca. Ø 30–55 cm × H 100 cm (organisch variierende Form)
• Material: White water-resistant mesh fabric, transparent acrylic diffuser, black metal canopy
• Suspension: 2,5 m Cable + schwarzes Koaxialkabel
• Light bulb: integrierte LED, dimmbar
• Voltage: 120–277 V, Schutzklasse I
• Protection rating: IP20 (indoor)
• Designerin: Candela Cort for LZF Lamps, Valencia
• Manufacture: handmade in the LZF manufactory, Spain
• Scope of delivery: Leuchte komplett montiert, Baldachin, Aufhängung, integrierte LED

The Cloud Kurz is handmade in the LZF manufactory in Valencia – every version of the Cloud Kurz is unique. At Designort you will find the Cloud Kurz and over 100 other models from the LZF collection.

The Cloud Kurz is handmade in the LZF manufactory in Valencia – every version of the Cloud Kurz is unique. At Designort you will find the Cloud Kurz and over 100 other models from the LZF collection.

Über LZF Lamps – Manufaktur aus Valencia

LZF Lamps was founded in Valencia in 1994 and is today one of the most important manufactory studios for designer lights in Europe. LZF became known above all for its characteristic lights made of thin, translucent wood veneer – complemented by experimental families such as Cloud, in which LZF deliberately uses other materials such as textile mesh or acrylic. What all models have in common is the handcrafted production in Valencia and collaboration with international designers such as Burkhard Dämmer, Ray Power, Mariví Calvo, Isidro Ferrer and Candela Cort.

More about the manufactory and all designs on the official website of LZF Lamps.

At Designort you will find a curated selection of around 100 LZF lights – from small solitaires such as Tiny to large light sculptures such as Dandelion or the cloud-shaped models of The Cloud family.