Wool Pendant Lighting by Lof

Lof creates wool pendant lighting from locally grown New Zealand wool, designed to bring softness, warmth and acoustic comfort into contemporary interiors. The collection includes Hiwa, Bloem and Wool Hoop: three sculptural pendant lighting ranges that explore how wool can soften light, sound and space. Designed for homes, hospitality spaces and architectural interiors, each piece brings a natural textile layer into contemporary rooms where timber, stone, concrete, ceramics and glass often define the material palette.

Based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Lof is a design studio led by textile designer Sophie Poelman and product designer Alain Brideson. Working with high-micron New Zealand wool, the studio creates pendant lights that sit between textile design and product design.

In contemporary sustainable interiors, materials are often already deeply considered. Recycled or responsibly sourced timber, stone, ceramics, clay, lime plaster, natural finishes and fibres are chosen with care, creating homes that are beautiful, enduring and connected to nature. Wool belongs in this material conversation too, as the softer layer that makes contemporary interiors more liveable. Lof’s wool pendant lighting introduces the gentle glow of wool into architecture, through lighting made from a renewable and biodegradable fibre, with a traceable and fair supply chain. The result is lighting that not only softens space and sound, but also sits within a broader sustainable design approach. The wool is farm-sourced, single origin, and grown on a regenerative farm in the Wairarapa, verified through the Savory Institute’s Land to Market programme. From there, it is scoured in Napier, spun in Wellington, knitted in Auckland and hand assembled in Lof’s Waiheke studio. It is a deliberately local journey from farm to light.

Wool is a hardworking, intelligent material that works quietly in the background. Like curtains, rugs or carpet, it brings a soft textile layer into a room, helping to balance harder architectural materials. Integrated into lighting, that softness becomes part of the architecture itself. The knitted wool naturally diffuses light, creating a soft ambient glow. Its fibre structure also helps soften sound and reduce reverberation within a room — a quality Lof tested with the University of Auckland’s engineering department as part of more than five years of research and development into the lighting collection.

Hiwa is a faceted wool pendant light named after Hiwa-i-te-rangi, one of the stars in Matariki, the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster. Associated with aspiration and new beginnings, Hiwa is available in four sizes from 400mm to 800mm in diameter, and is designed to be used either as a single pendant or in clusters. Bloem offers a more open and generous form at 800mm, designed as a social light for large dining tables, gathering spaces and larger interiors. Its wide shape brings volume and softness without blocking sightlines or conversation across a table. Wool Hoop, Lof’s original pendant range, offers round forms in sizes from 150mm to 900mm for bedrooms, dining areas, stairwells and large open spaces.

Each Lof light is designed with sustainability in mind: natural fibres, a traceable supply chain, repairable and replaceable components, and materials chosen for long life and eventual biodegradability.

From a hillside farm in the Wairarapa to a design studio on Waiheke Island, and finally into homes, hospitality spaces and architectural projects across Australia and New Zealand, each Lof light carries a quiet material story: grown, made and designed in Aotearoa New Zealand, shaped by wool’s history and its future as a high-performance interior material.

Explore Lof wool pendant lighting at lof.nz