13 March 2025

The Language of Light

ECC brings the vision of renowned global brands to a local audience, crafting spaces that stand out for their originality and function. Here, we explore a selection of the playful yet functional collection from Barcelona-based lighting designers, Marset.

At its core, Marset creates lighting that transforms spaces, playing with contrasts to reveal and hide, generating intimacy and warmth. Each lamp is more than just a source of light; it is an object of design that connects with the surroundings, bringing balance and depth to the atmosphere. Marset’s philosophy is to craft lighting that doesn’t dazzle but instead softens, collecting and integrating itself seamlessly into any space—whether indoors or outdoors.

Their collection speaks the language of light, aiming to bring beauty, enhance textures, and highlight spaces, making environments more livable. Whether illuminating the cozy corners of a home or bringing a sense of elegance to outdoor settings, Marset’s designs embrace the power of light to create inviting and meaningful spaces.

DIPPING LIGHT PORTABLE by Jordi Canudas for Marset

Beyond its function as a lamp, the Dipping Light seeks to excite. When on, its different shades of paint sift the light, creating a magical ambient effect. When off, its coloured glass sphere is an object charged with beauty–an eye-catching design piece for a shelf, bedside, or table. The various layers of paint draw concentric circles and capture the light, moderating its intensity. The paint becomes the shade, colouring and texturizing the light. This artisanal process will make each lamp a unique and exclusive creation. There is a choice of finish for the base–brushed brass and graphite–with 10 colour options available.

CHISPA by Joan Gaspar for Marset

With a design inspired by a classic garage lamp, this refined piece offers three illumination settings. Its warm light is enclosed by a protective grate, adding a unique touch, while an accessory allows it to be hung for versatile use.

BICOCA PORTABLE TABLE LAMP by Christophe Mathieu

This new colorful, lightweight portable lamp projects an intimate light that adds warmth to all your personal spaces. Made of polycarbonate, Bicoca begins with an overlay of basic geometric figures, with a tiltable shade to direct the light. A powerful magnet can be affixed to the bottom of the fixture, allowing you to place it to metal surfaces -even vertical walls- defying gravity. Six colours provide an option for any taste and any space.

FOLLOW ME TABLE LAMP by Inma Bermúdez

Portable and rechargeable–a table lamp that can be taken wherever you go. Because of its small, warm, and self-contained character, it is ideal both indoors and outdoors. The oak handle beckons you to pick it up. With a swinging lampshade made of white polycarbonate, it boasts a fresh, luminous look. It comes with LED technology and a dimmer. The battery is built-in, and it has a USB port for recharging.

GINGER PORTABLE TABLE LAMP by Joan Gaspar for Marset

Wood is a great ally for cozy lighting. It is a material that is hard to mould, a challenge that the Ginger collection neatly resolves. The combination of sheets of wood, paper and resins pressed together under high pressure creates a laminate that appears almost entirely flat, which discreetly lights up spaces with indirect light.

This collection has been expanding over time to provide a solution to different lighting needs: different sizes for the suspension, tabletop (including the portable version) and floor models, two wall versions with a movable arm, and four wall lamp sizes that are simple yet formal and that can be combined with one another. The latter boast extraordinary structural simplicity and can be combined with each other to great effect.

Thanks to a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the new portable table version of Ginger allows spaces to be lit independently with utter freedom and with no need for wires. The version of Ginger in metal offers the same reflected, warm, glare-free light that helps to accentuate spaces. This material is applied to some models of the collection with different finishes: gold, black and white outside and gold and white inside. A new, lighter option that’s refined, almost like a sculpture. With these two highly diverse materials –wood and metal– the Ginger turns into a versatile collection, rounding out the circle and offering a lamp for every lighting and decorating need.

FRAGILE TABLE LAMP by Jaume Ramírez for Marset

Fascinated by timeless design, designer Jaume Ramírez is interested in the archetypal table lamp in which a lampshade distributes light in all directions. This is the starting point from which he reflects and experiments to propose a new glass design, with more streamlined shapes. The Fragile lamp is a mix of geometric shapes. A cone and a sphere are arranged to hold a cylinder that emits ambient light from below.

SIPS PORTABLE TABLE LAMP by Christophe Mathieu for Marset

Ingenious, minimal and decisive, the new Sips portable lamp is an understated, timeless design with a very clear purpose: to create a distinctive, intimate lighted space, even outdoors. With a small opaque shade, the Sips illuminates the table directly but without dazzling or overpowering the space. Its wider base provides stability and includes a touch switch with three light intensities. It is available in three shades that fit easily in culinary and leisure spaces: warm white with a silver stem, deep green the stem in a gold finish, and dark brown with the stem in a gold finish.

Free of cables, lightweight, with a simple structure and neutral colours, this design becomes a discreet part of the table, without formal or chromatic excesses. An object simplified to the max that allows easy placement and mobility and ensures good lighting in restaurants, bars, cocktail bars, terraces and patios. Because those are the places we go to enjoy ourselves, and to take our time doing it, in a neat, unobtrusive space, and, of course, just the right lighting.

All Marset lighting is available from ECC.