Halo Horizon is a lamp that is mostly a sunset

Mandalaki’s Halo Horizon projects the band of blue and orange you see from a plane window onto your wall, and leaves the lamp itself almost invisible.

feeldesain

28 October 2026

Halo Horizon floor lamp by Mandalaki projecting a circular blue and orange sunset gradient on a dark wall

A ring of light on a dark wall, deep blue at the top, burning orange at the bottom, with a thin band where one colour gives way to the other. In front of it stands a black stem so slim you almost forget to look at it. That is the point: Halo Horizon is a lamp you notice last.

Circle of light fading from blue to orange projected by the slim black Halo Horizon lamp — Blue above, orange below: the horizon line on a dark wall. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

Designed by Mandalaki Studio for its own brand, Halo Edition, Horizon is the first piece of the Landscape collection. The brief comes from a window seat: that moment on a flight when the sky outside splits into bands, blue above and orange along the curve of the Earth, and day and night share the same view for a few minutes. The studio has tried to fit that view into a living room.

Living room with large windows and a city view, with Halo Horizon projecting a sunset gradient on the ceiling — Tilt the head and the sunset moves up onto the ceiling. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

Halo Horizon lamp in a dark living room projecting a large blue and orange circle on the wall — Tilt the head and the sunset moves up onto the ceiling. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

The trick is optical rather than digital. There is no app, no preset scene, no colour wheel. A 120 cm stem in black anodised aluminium, carved from solid, holds a small head with an 8 watt LED and a mineral glass lens that throws the gradient onto the wall. The head tilts, so the sunset can climb onto the ceiling or slip into a corner, and an integrated dimmer takes it from full blaze to a faint afterglow. In mid 2025 Mandalaki revised the optic, making it slimmer and lighter.

Close up of the Halo Horizon lamp head with mineral glass lens in black anodised aluminium — The head, with its mineral glass lens. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

Round Halo Horizon dimmer on its cable in warm orange light — The head, with its mineral glass lens. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

What we like is how Horizon turns the usual hierarchy of a lamp upside down. Most floor lamps are sculptures that happen to give light; this one is light that happens to need a stand. It belongs to a lineage that runs from Olafur Eliasson’s sun hanging in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern to James Turrell’s skyspaces, where the work is the atmosphere and not the object. Horizon is the domestic, plug-in version of that idea, with every compromise that implies, and it still manages the rare feat of making a room go quiet when it is switched on.

Detail of the Halo Horizon lamp head against a blue and orange light gradient — The stem against the edge of the halo. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

Halo Horizon floor lamp switched off on a white background next to books — The stem against the edge of the halo. Courtesy of Halo Edition by Mandalaki Studio

Let us be clear about what it is not. It is not a reading lamp, and it will not light a bookshelf evenly. It also asks for a bit of planning, because the distance from the wall sets the size of the circle, and Halo publishes a guide to get it right.

Horizon is made in Italy and costs €1,290 excluding VAT, with delivery in about three weeks. That is a lot for an 8 watt lamp, and not much for a sunset that turns up every evening, whatever the weather.