A lamp that keeps your hours.
Machined from a single billet of aluminium, Meridian 01 reads the room and answers it — drifting from 1 800 K candlelight to 6 500 K daylight without ever asking for attention. Seventy hours cordless. One continuous gesture of control.
Phase I — Rise
Meridian wakes a few degrees before you do. A slow 20-minute ramp from amber to clean morning white, matched to the real sunrise at your coordinates. No alarm. No glare. Only a room that quietly becomes daytime.
Phase II — Work
The ambient sensor samples the room 30 times a second. As cloud passes the window, Meridian lifts to hold a constant 500 lux across your desk — crisp 5 200 K light with no flicker, no hotspot and no shadow on the page.
Phase III — Unwind
Blue content falls away hour by hour. The beam softens at the edges, the diffuser warms to 2 700 K, and the desk becomes a table again. Your phone rests on the base and charges while the light lets go.
Phase IV — Rest
Below 1 900 K the LED array runs on a single warm channel — under five lux, deep amber, melatonin-safe. Pass a hand over the base and it dissolves to nothing over ninety seconds. It will be waiting at 06:40.
The column, head and base are cut from three billets of 6082-T6 aluminium — no plastic housings, no visible fasteners, no seams you can catch a fingernail on. Total mass, 2.4 kg. It stays exactly where you put it.
A 22-micron hard-anodised shell is sealed, re-blasted and sealed again — a surface that reads matte at distance and faintly granular in the hand. It will not yellow, and it will not fingerprint.
A capacitive strip runs the length of the head. Slide for brightness, press and slide for colour temperature, double-tap to recall a scene. There is nothing else to learn — and nothing else to break. Try it below.
A Qi2 15 W coil sits under the leather disc with a magnetic alignment ring machined into the aluminium. Set a phone down anywhere near centre and it snaps, seats and charges — silently, and without a single cable crossing your desk.
Six-channel LED array — warm white, neutral white, cool white, deep red, lime and royal blue — blended in real time to fill the spectral gaps that ordinary white LEDs leave behind. Skin, paper, fabric and pigment all come back true.
The head rotates 300° on a stainless friction cam tuned to 1.1 newton-metres — heavy enough to hold a position for a decade, light enough to adjust with one finger. The column telescopes 180 mm. Nothing springs, nothing sags, nothing clicks.
Everything inside Meridian exists to make the light behave more like a window and less like a device. Here is what it takes.
A dual-channel lux and colour sensor reads the room — including daylight through the window — and holds your chosen illuminance without visible steps.
A 9 600 mAh LiFePO₄ cell rated for 3 000 cycles. Lift Meridian off the desk and carry it to the table, the balcony, the floor. It is a lamp, not an appliance.
Six scenes stored on-device — Draft, Read, Dine, Film, Studio, Rest. Double-tap the strip to cycle. Works with no phone, no account and no network.
Schedules, geo-aware sunrise, firmware, per-room grouping. Local-first over Thread — it keeps working when your internet does not.
Eight torx fasteners, a replaceable cell, a replaceable LED board and published schematics. Ten-year parts guarantee, from the day it ships.
Meridian 01 ships in numbered editions of nine hundred, each one machined, anodised and calibrated by hand in Brescia. Reservations open now for the first delivery window.