Cafè ArtScience
Perfectly situated between Harvard and MIT, Café ArtScience is a creative hub blending gastronomy, design, and innovation. Part restaurant, part bar, part concept space, it attracts a dynamic mix of students, professors, entrepreneurs, and artists—drawn together over shared ideas and refined cuisine.
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur crafted the space without walls, instead using sculptural, livable objects to define areas for dining, discussion, and experimentation. At the heart of the lounge, he chose F21 Cloudy—his 2014 design for Fabbian—to form a suspended cloudscape above the green velvet seating ribbon. Nearly 20 Cloudy pendants in two sizes (16” and 11”) were handmade in Italy and installed to give the interior a soft, luminous sophistication.
Each Cloudy is crafted through up to 30 steps at our Venetian glassworks, combining clear and milky-white blown glass to achieve a delicate gradient effect. The award-winning design (recipient of the iF Design Award 2014) is part of a comprehensive and versatile collection, available in both 16” and 11” pendant and ceiling versions.
Cloudy is offered in two formats: readily available 120V “off-the-rack” fixtures ideal for residential and retail projects and a Made-to-Spec High-Performance range designed for commercial specifiers. With the Made-to-Spec program, designers can tailor their selection—choosing from a range of mounting types, lamp types, color temperatures, and power supplies—to create the perfect custom solution using standard components. The result is a timeless fixture that adapts beautifully to any project.
Arch. Mathieu Lehanneur
Local Architects: Brown / Fenollosa
Photo credit: Phase One Photography
