GUBI Multi-Lite

Designed in 1972, the GUBI Multi-Lite collection has remained relevant today because it offers something different: the light has the ability to change with the room around it. Designed by Danish architect Louis Weisdorf, the Multi-Lite was created to express his fascination with diversity and transformation. More than fifty years later, it still feels remarkably contemporary.

A simple but ingenious design, the Weisdorf’s Multi-Lite has two opposing outer shades that can be rotated independently. This allows the light to be directed upwards, downwards or asymmetrically without exposing the bulb. The result is a lamp that is both functional and sculptural, encouraging personal arrangement and interaction rather than a fixed, static form.

The GUBI Mutli-Lite: A Mid-Century Icon

The Best-Lite has a distinctly mid-century aesthetic, designed during the tail end of the mid-century modern period. It captures the 1970s fascination with futuristic designs, pushing boundaries of what an everyday object could look like. This futuristic influence is what gives the Best-Lite its unique character and keeps it feeling contemporary today.

Weisdorf's construction is deceptively simple: two cylindrical forms create the core of the lamp, a metal ring holds the composition together, and the quarter-spherical shades complete the design. From a distance, it reads as a clean geometric object. Up close, the shifting relationship between the shades creates depth, shadow and movement.

How to Style the GUBI Multi-Lite

Because of it’s unique appearance, the Best-Lite works well in both minimal and richly layered interiors. A single Multi-Lite Pendant can become the focal point above a dining table, while the Multi-Lite Table Lamp adds atmosphere to a sideboard, bedside table or living room shelf. The Multi-Lite Floor Lamp creates a sculptural presence beside a sofa, the Multi-Lite Wall Light brings character to hallways and reading corners, and the Multi-Lite Rechargeable Lamp carries the same iconic silhouette into flexible, portable use.

The collection is most successful when treated as architectural lighting rather than decoration alone. Use a pendant as the anchor, then repeat the form elsewhere in the room through a table or floor lamp. Because the shades can be repositioned, you can soften the mood for evening entertaining, direct light onto a reading chair, or create a more sculptural composition for decorative accent lighting.

Showroom tip: If you're using more than one Multi-Lite in a space, vary the shade positions rather than keeping them identical. The subtle differences create a more relaxed, collected look and highlight the flexibility that makes the design so enduring.

Discover more iconic GUBI designs, such as the Bestlite, Grashoppa and Semi Pendant, in our full collection of GUBI Lighting.

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