Designed by Vico Magistretti
For many years now, Atollo has no longer been a lamp, or rather, it has no longer been just a lamp. It has become a myth, an icon: one of the best know symbols of Italian design wordwide, one of the very few products which people recognise and call with its own name. Designed by Vico Magistretti in 1977, it was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1979 and became, since then, part of the permanent collections of the world’s major museum of design, as well as part of the furniture of many homes of those who love and are able to select the things surrounding them. Atollo’s secret probably lies in the geometrical construction of its shapes: the cone on the cylinder and the semisphere above all. A luminous sculpture from which nothing can be removed to which nothing can be added. And which nothing can copy.
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Its sinuous curves resulting from the shaping of a sheet of frosted methacrylate softly diffuse the light. It brings together ?simplicity and concept? which for Magistretti are at the heart of durable design.
Realised in 1979, Kuta expresses Magistretti?s constant quest to combine simplicity and geometric rigour with an evocative lighting effect of lights and shadows.
In 1946, Vico Magistretti conceived Claritas, his first lighting design, which conceptually aimed for clarity and brightness. In a context of reconstruction and reconversion of the war industry, for the first time Magistretti used bent metal tubes and a curved aluminium sheet as a reflector, which could be oriented and regulated, ensuring the desired lighting […]
With direct reference to the anecdote of the apple falling on Isaac Newton?s head, suggesting the existence of gravity, Newton?s metal diffuser rotates and enlightens the natural element in a mix of direct and diffused light.
$2,170
The Bloom Floor Lamp’s superelliptical shade form is inspired by the gentle dynamic flow of paper lanterns. Its glorious lit effect is the result of transparency and light. Two contrasting materials ??? a finely perforated mesh core and frosted blown glass, combine to project a soft focus texture onto the inside of the shade. Combined […]
$5,030
The Parc Collection is inspired by childhood imagination and the essentiality of homemade forms. Evoking the archetype of a flashlight, each lamp from the Parc Collection is a playful reminder of time spent in nature?when a simple tube and piece of string could be used to fashion any number of creations. Created in collaboration with […]
$10,490
The name chosen for this Bomma collection, inspired by basic geometric shapes, comes from the Greek word for ?appearances.? According to Plato?s teachings, phenomena are mere transient images of eternal and perfect forms and thus inherently unreal. A fitting name for objects made of glass ? a material that is both rigid and flexible, as […]