The top
The line runs the full ten inches, unbroken and unjoined.
STUDIO AUBERT
Model 21
L’Ascension
A line laid flat, a light that climbs.
54.90€
The piece is coming…
360°
Come closer. Turn around it.
The flank
A button sunk into the mass, a continuity that lights up.
End on
One even block, run through with light from end to end.
Straight down
Seen from above, the bar disappears. Only the line is left.
A bar of solid oak ten inches long, barely taller than a book lying down. Along the top, a warm LED line inlaid from end to end: the light does not spread, it climbs. Ascension does not light the table, it lights the wall. Set against a partition, at the back of a shelf or behind a screen, it sends a blade of light straight up and picks its own shadows. Joseph Pont struck this balance of plainness and poise so the climb happens gently and clearly. The block is solid oak — the kind that settles into a room and lifts it.
I The material
One piece, and it lifts
Solid oak, dried before machining. The grain runs the length, end to end, and breaks nowhere: the groove is milled into the block itself. That is why no two Ascensions are ever quite alike.
II The detail
Two things on the flank
A raise button, sunk into the mass. Below it, five-eighths of an inch above the table, the USB-C socket — no transformer, no brick on the floor.
III The light
It climbs
2000 K, colour rendering index above 95. Set eight inches from a wall, Ascension draws a soft band on it that rises to shoulder height and fades with no hard edge. You never see the source: you see the wall.
Technical drawing
The drawing, dimensioned
Three views, nine dimensions. Everything follows from them: a bar ten inches long, an inch and a half high, and a five-eighths-inch line running end to end.
The line · 0.6 in
Wide enough for the light to breathe, narrow enough for the bar to stay a bar.
The height · 1.6 in
Below eye level, seated. You watch what the light says on its way up.
The button · 0.6 in from the end
Far enough from the edge not to catch, close enough to find without looking.
Nominal dimensions, tolerance ± 0.04 in.
Technical sheet
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 3.1 × 1.6 in
- Weight
- 3.1 lb
- Material
- French solid oak, oiled
- Finish
- Natural oil, three coats
- Source
- Integrated LED line, replaceable
- Temperature
- 2000 K · CRI > 95
- Output
- 220 lm
- Rated life
- 15,000 hours — fourteen years at three hours a night
- Button
- ⌀ 0.4 in
- Consumption
- 4 W
- Power
- USB-C, braided cable, 71 in
- Design
- Joseph Pont
- Origin
- Designed in France
Delivery & returns
Cardboard packaging, wood-fibre packing: nothing to throw away, everything recyclable. Thirty days to watch it live; returns, no questions.
- Free delivery in mainland France
- Designed in France · drawing by Joseph Pont
Frequent questions
Does it have to stand against a wall?
That is what it is drawn for. The light goes up: eight inches from a vertical surface, it draws a soft band on it. Out in the open, with nothing in front, all that is left is a lit line and a warm room — either way it sets the mood.
Why USB-C and not mains power?
Four watts. A phone charger is enough, and the cable can be replaced over the counter the day it gives out. No transformer to hide behind a cabinet.
Does the groove collect dust?
A soft brush clears it in ten seconds. The oil does not go into the groove: the wall of it stays raw, and that is what gives the light its grain.
Can the LED be replaced?
Yes. The module comes out from underneath, with no tools and no glue. The source is rated for fifteen thousand hours, and we keep spare modules in stock.
You will also look at
Cart 0 piece
Your cart is empty.