Magill

The Magill is where NEOZ began. Peter Ellis designed it in 1995 for a single room: the Penfolds Magill Estate restaurant in Adelaide, an Allen Jack + Cottier interior that was the first of its kind in the city. The brief was a cordless lamp for the table, drawn around the postmodern architectural language of the building it was made for. A clear acrylic cylinder, a brushed stainless steel base and top, and an internal cone that reflects the warm LED back through the column. Nothing hidden, nothing decorative. The mechanism is the design.

Thirty years on, the Magill is still built in the same form, and still earns its place. It went from the Magill Estate to Rockpool Bar and Grill Melbourne in 2006, when Vanessa Crichton, then opening the room with Neil Perry, brought it in to replace a bespoke lamp that kept breaking. "An individual light on the table brings such a unique glow and is seamless in its presentation," she has said of the lamp. You will also find it on tables at the Kerry Hotel in Hong Kong, and at hospitality venues around the world.