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Powerful aesthetics, industry-leading technology, and unmatched user control - enhancing both home and office environments - define Leaf. Designed by Yves Béhar of fuseproject in San Francisco, Leaf puts control in peoples’ hands, or more accurately, at their fingertips. Attractive touch control allows the user to adjust the light intensity and colour easily, changing from warm to cool light to best suit a mood, a task, or a location.
The new Leaf personal light is definitely cool – in many ways. It gives the user a unique lighting choice that is attractive, innovative and environmentally friendly.
Chips, not bulbs. Leaf uses 20 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for illumination; 10 chips are blue-white (cool) and 10 are yellow-white (warm).
Personal control. Touch to turn on/off; slide a finger along a groove in the base to adjust intensity and achieve the desired blend of warm and cool light.
Good memory. When turned on, the light retains the previous colour and intensity settings.
Energy efficient. Uses 8-9 watts of power, or 40 percent less than a compact fluorescent bulb.
Long life. Allows up to 100,000 hours of use, eight times longer than conventional light sources.
Elegant profile. Blades are thin and sculptural, giving the light an organic form.
Cool and quiet. Innovative heat-dissipating design keeps the light cool to the touch without a fan.
Finish choices. Five colours to coordinate with a variety of settings; black, white, red, nickel, polished.
Design for the Environment (DfE) protocol. Developed according to Herman Miller's demanding Design for the Environment (DfE) protocol, emphasising sustainable processes, materials, and recyclability.
Recyclable. Up to 95 percent recyclable at the end of its useful life.
Lower blade. Rotates 180 degrees and pivots 27.5 degrees forward and 23 degrees backward.
Upper blade. Pivots 210 degrees to extend for direct lighting or to fold for subtle, ambient lighting.
"A new experience in light is what we hoped for," says Yves Béhar, designer of the Leaf personal light for Herman Miller. As a result of innovative engineering and design development, Béhar's hopes became reality.
Leaf offers maximum lighting options with minimal mass in an intriguing, organic form and with controls that invite human connection. The proprietary heat distribution technology also addresses the most vexing problems in existing LED solutions--light intensity and heat build-up.
"Leaf is designed to give the user a full spectrum of choices to express light's magical and sensory variations," says Béhar. "It allows the human senses to become engaged by allowing the user to choose the intensity and colour of light which best suits a functional need, mood, or location."
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