Omer Arbel Office and
Bocci Design and Manufacturing Inc.
Omer Arbel is the principal of Omer Arbel Office, which produces designs for buildings, objects, furniture, lighting and electrical accessories. He is also co-founder and creative director of Bocci, a design and manufacturing firm whose portfolio ranges from light installations to furniture and electrical sockets.
Arbel graduated from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in 2000. After apprenticeships with Miralles Tagliabue in Spain and Patkau Architects, and Busby + Associates Architects in Vancouver, he founded his practice in 2005. Bocci also launched in 2005. Over the past decade, Arbel has continually explored new directions in lighting design.
Arbel’s accolades include several Red Dot and iF awards, a Yellow Pencil Yearbook Entry, the Ron Thom Early Design Achievement, and the commission to design the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Medals.
BoccixMallett / Photo: Gwenael Lewis
BoccixMallett / Photo: Gwenael Lewis
28.280 / Photo: Gwenael Lewis
28.106 / Photo: Hartmut Nagele
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54.2 / Photo: Gwenael Lewis
54.2 / Photo: Gwenael Lewis
23.2 / Photo: Nick Lehoux
23.2 / Photo: Nick Lehoux
His work “presented us with an artful play in perspective, object, and space,” said the three-member jury.
“Breathtaking and delightful in its simplicity, the Victoria and Albert installation effects a surprising transformation of the space and surface of the architecture, of up and down, dark and light,” they said.