The name comes from Japan. For centuries, ama referred to the women who free-dove to the ocean floor to collect pearls. It’s a fitting reference for a light that looks like it came from the same place.
BOMMA’s Ama collection was designed by BOMMA Creative Director Václav Mlynář, who drew directly from that imagery, shell forms cradling a luminous pearl at their core. The result is something that reads as both organic and architectural, soft and precise at the same time.
How Each One Is Made
The process takes two full days per piece. Glass is heated until it slowly melts under its own weight into a custom conical mold, gradually taking on the signature shell-like form. No two pieces land identically. The glass comes in clear matte, smoke, and bronze matte, all mounted on granite black fittings that keep the focus on the form itself.
Opened or Closed, That’s Up to You
Each pendant is available in two configurations: opened or closed. That choice isn’t just aesthetic, it changes the quality and direction of light in the space. Mixed installations of opened and closed shells create natural, cluster-like groupings that feel less like a light fixture and more like something that grew there. Chandelier configurations of three or five pieces are available for larger installations.
The Ama has been installed in private residences in Athens and Prague, a Courtyard by Marriott in Armenia, and shown at Euroluce in Milan. It works in residential dining rooms, hospitality settings, and anywhere that calls for a ceiling moment that doesn’t feel overdone.
See BOMMA’s lighting with your own eyes in La Jolla
At Unscripted Spaces, we carry BOMMA alongside our full portfolio of contemporary luxury brands, Poliform, antoniolupi, Mehraban, and more. Whether you’re furnishing a home in La Jolla, finishing out a bathroom remodel in San Diego, or starting a project from scratch, lighting is always part of how we think through a space.
If Ama is on your radar, let’s talk about your project.
