About the studio
Our story
Vesper began in 2016 in a small Lisbon workshop, with a single question: why do lamps look so different at noon and at nine?
Most lighting is designed for the showroom — bright, even, daytime. We design for both lives of a fixture: the object you see in daylight, and the atmosphere it creates after dark.
Today we work with twelve family workshops across Portugal, Bohemia and the Jura. Every piece is made to order or in small batches, and every one can be repaired.
Design philosophy
We begin with the light a room needs — a pool on a table, a glow in a corridor — and only then draw the object that makes it.
Brass that tarnishes, oak that darkens, glass with the seeds of the furnace left in. Materials that age with the people who live with them.
Every fixture is repairable, every part replaceable. We would rather make fewer pieces that stay for decades.
Materials
Six materials, chosen for how they hold light — and how they age.
Machined, beaten and brushed by hand. Left unlacquered to develop a living patina.
Turned from FSC-certified European hardwood and finished with hardwax oil.
Clear, opal and amber — blown into beechwood moulds in northern Bohemia.
Fired twice onto steel for a deep, even finish that resists fading.
Polished interiors that warm the light before it leaves the shade.
Woven with a natural slub that softens light as it passes through.
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