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Create gorgeous, molten lava light effects with Tom Dixon's award-winning series, Melt. Now available as a striking wall light, this series promises to bring empty stretches of wall to light and life with a hot-blown glass effect when on and a mirror finish effect when off.
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Product Information
Description
Melt lights are created through a process of blow moulding and vacuum metallisation to achieve melted orbs with abundant and unusual luminosity. Over several years we have worked with some forerunners of German engineering and manufacturing to develop these techniques and produce lamps that create the latest in reflectivity and transparency.
Through the use of injection blow moulding, a melted plastic polymer moulding is injected into a massive precision-made steel tool, inflated with compressed air and then cooled.
The mirror finish of each pendant is then created by the highly technical process of vacuum metallisation. The polycarbonate shell is secreted in the interior of a metallic chamber, the air sucked out, and an immense electrical charge channelled through. With a bang and pop a thin strip of copper foil is vaporised into a fine mist of metallic particles that settles across the interior.For Melt, Tom Dixon have taken vacuum thin film deposition to a new level with half metallised surfaces, creating an extraordinary optical effect that reflects and enhances its environment. This half-mirrored effect often seen on a smaller scale in fashion sunglasses or gangster windscreens creates a hyper reflective surface finish when turned off but transforms into a translucent colour when switched on.
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Specifications
Dimensions
Ø 50 x H 50 x D 28 cm
Material & Finishes
A blow-moulded 50 cm polycarbonate shade with a semi-metallised interior that is a solid liquid mass when off and semi-transparent when lit. Melt is a distorted lighting globe born from a collaboration with Swedish radical design collective FRONT. Now available with a new custom-made dimmable Tom Dixon LED ring.
Bulb Requirements
6W LED, Light Source Included, 220-240V
Lumens : 800
Colour Temp : 3000
Dimmability : Mains Dimmable, leading and trailing edge
Indoor, IP20Delivery Time
4-8 weeksNot all finishes and sizes are available to buy online. However, the full range is available at our London-based showroom. Please contact our design team on 020 8421 1779 if you require further information, to request a swatch sample or to discuss the Chaplins Price Promise.
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Delivery & Returns
Delivery
STANDARD PARCEL DELIVERY
Parcel delivery is available for most home accessories, gifts, lighting and some smaller items of furniture. To provide a high quality service for our customers, we only use well respected couriers for our parcel deliveries and you can rest assured that your parcel is trackable at every stage.
Standard (2-4 working days)
Small £15.99
Medium £24.99
Large £39.99
The typical delivery window is 24 hours from the day your items arrive at our warehouse (see product page for indicative lead times).
All items purchased that are in stock will be sent out to you within 5 to 7 working days.
If you have ordered multiple items, we will send these out to you in one delivery as soon as they all arrive at our warehouse and they have been quality checked.
*Standard delivery does not include assembly or unpacking. Occasionally the delivery company may require assistance unloading larger items.
Click & Collect
Our warehouse located in St Albans will contact you when your order is available for collection; for in stock items this is within 5 days of your order date, items not held in stock will be within 5 working days of arrival at our warehouse (see product page for indicative lead times).
Remember to bring your confirmation email with you as proof of purchase.
Please note, large items, such as sofas and large tables, are excluded from our Click & Collect service. If you have any question regarding this service, please call our Customer Service team on 020 8421 1779 (Non UK: +44 (0)20 8421 1779) or e-mail us: CUSTOMERSERVICES@CHAPLINS.CO.UK
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Price Promise
Our Price Promise
We know that price is important. And while all of our designs follow the recommended retail prices (RRP) from our suppliers, we’re determined never to be bested.
It’s why we decided to introduce our Chaplins Price Promise. A guarantee to try and match the price of a branded product should you find it on sale at another authorised UK retailer. While the offer only applies to new designs (rather than clearance, outlets or ex-display) it’s our way of showing that we don’t just offer the best in service or style, but are committed to competitive pricing, too.
Please click on the button below should you wish to query a price. If a competitor's offer isn't immediately apparent online, we may ask you to supply us with a written quotation from the retailer — just to confirm the details.
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Designer Profile
Tom Dixon
Tom Dixon is a British designer specialised in furniture, lighting and accessories. He cut his teeth in the early 1980s at Cappellini where he designed the iconic S chair before going on to found his own studio in the early noughties. Today, it is best known for their hypnotic lighting creations, including bestselling styles like the Melt Pendant Light collection.
