Bibliothéque Alexis de Tocqueville Caen

Individually manufactured reading lights in the freehand magazine

The Alexis de Tocqueville Library designed by OMA / Rem Kohlhaas in cooperation with Chris van Duijn is a public library for the metropolitan region of Caen la Mer in Normandy, France. Reading spaces within the 12,000 m² multimedia library section are illuminated by 78 custom-length potsdam LED table lamps.

Design

OMA / Rem Kohlhaas und Chris van Duijn

Realisation

mawa design

Photography

Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti © OMA

Scope of services

78 × potsdam table lamp po 1
LED, 25 W, 3000 K, 2000 lm, custom-length, 800 × 50 × 550 mm