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Design Lighting Nuura

Apiales

A family of chandeliers, pendants and wall lamps by Sofie Refer for Nuura, modelled on the umbellifer flower, with brass or black arms holding glass globes.

Designed by
Sofie Refer
Made by
Nuura

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Apiales 18 in brushed brass with opal glass
Apiales 18 in brushed brass with opal glass
Apiales 9 in a panelled room
Apiales 9 in a panelled room
The brass arms of Apiales 18
The brass arms of Apiales 18
Apiales wall lamp beside a mirror
Apiales wall lamp beside a mirror

Pictures © Nuura, from nuura.com.

Why it is renowned

Apiales is Nuura's flower chandelier: mouth-blown glass globes on arms that unfold from a single canopy like the stalks of an umbellifer.12 Its largest model, Apiales 18, carries eighteen globes and measures 89 cm across.2

Asked about her designs in a 2024 interview during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, Sofie Refer named the simplicity of the flower-like Apiales chandelier among the qualities she likes in her work.3

The story

The Danish lighting designer Sofie Refer designed Apiales with flowers as her starting point.14 The collection began as two chandeliers, with nine or eighteen mouth-blown globes, in brushed brass or satin black.1

It has since grown to Apiales 6, a cross between the chandelier and the single pendant, ceiling-mounted versions of the 6 and the 9, a cluster chandelier, pendants and wall lamps.45 The globes are opal glass, with optic gold glass on the brass models.5

  • Blossi, by the same designer
  • Miira, by the same designer
Sources
  1. Apiales 9 Chandelier, Nuura. nuura.com, read 1 October 2026.
  2. Apiales 18 Chandelier, Nuura. nuura.com, read 1 October 2026.
  3. Highlights of 3 Days of Design 2024, These Four Walls. thesefourwallsblog.com, read 1 October 2026.
  4. Apiales 6 Chandelier, Nuura. nuura.com, read 1 October 2026.
  5. Apiales collection, Nuura. nuura.com, read 1 October 2026.

Last checked 1 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.