“It’s the light that makes good architecture into unique architecture”. Faithful to this credo, Lights of Vienna – renowned developers and manufacturers of decorative lighting – are always in tune with the times and open to the fresh ideas of young designers. Lights of Vienna gave students on the Bachelor of Arts course in the Manual & Material Culture Department of the New Design University the opportunity of designing pendant lamps made of Niro sheet metal and of making them as prototypes. Despite predetermined materiality and dimension, twelve different objects emerged thrillingly poised between the poles of industrial production and handcrafted one-off product.