Plants always turn toward light. A seedling, a small flower, a young leaf. They move without thinking, following the light.
SAGE moves the same way. Two leaflets, each covered with 232 LED segments arranged like the veins of a leaf, turn on their stem. Where they face, the light goes. Toward the wall, and the room softens. Toward the hand, and you can read.
The first working prototype—electronics still bare. Photo; Hiroto Yoshizoe
SAGE on the brochure. Galleria Rossana Orlandi, April 9–14, 2019.
festive glow, Rossana Orlandi, Milan Design Week 2019—SAGE and TURN shown together for the first time. On the right, eight SAGE in a row.
IFFT Interior Lifestyle Living, Tokyo, 2021—"Making of." Eight SAGE from left to right: bare electronics to finished lamp, the making laid out in a row. Photo: Hiroto Yoshizoe
Photo; Hiroto Yoshizoe
Four brightness levels, from candlelight to reading light. Cordless, 150 hours on a full charge. Enough to last a blackout.
First Product Photo Hiroshi Iwasaki
Four levels, 20 to 1,000 lux, from a body of 800 grams. (Photo: Joe Suzuki)
AXIS Gallery, Tokyo, 2019. Eight SAGE, each leaf turned a little further toward the light than the last—the sun's path, laid out in space.
ISSEY MIYAKE, Milan, 2019. SAGE lighting the 1/6 watch—two projects, one week, one city.
![FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.](https://naotamura.com/img/2015/04/NaoTamura_IN_Flowt04-576x768.jpg "FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.")
