A play of graceful light overhead, string light by Michael Anastassiades adds a streamlined sophistication to your home or office. Providing diffused light, the suspension lamp features a varnished die-cast aluminum body coated with clear soft-touch varnish. The optical diffuser is opal PC (polycarbonate). Inspiration behind the design: "Every time I take the train, I sit by the window and watch the series of perfectly parallel strings connecting the pylons, as we move at high speed," explains designer Michael Anastassiades. "I love the way they divide the landscape and how spheres are occasionally beaded through the wires at random intervals. I also love how, in Mediterranean cultures, strings of lights are stretched between posts to mark an outdoor space for an evening party in a village square. And finally, I love how human ingenuity works around problems created by everyday things in the house (like switches and power points) that others have chosen to position where we don't want them". This fixture should be relaxed and then re-tightened approximately 24 hours after installation.