Steelcase
Ios and Pisa Lighting
Color and finish development, color strategy
Ios, was originally planned in opaque, nubby-textured plastic but grew more elegant with Surface Work’s contributions: a frosted ribbed texture and accompanying watery colors. The Pisa lamp’s original opaque finish had some specifiers confusing the metal lamp with cheaper plastic ones. Soft metallic coatings gave the lamp a more upscale and chameleon-like appearance. The slightly higher material costs were cancelled out by improved yields preserving margins.
