Barometro Lamps at PAD Paris and at Milan Design Week

Barometro lamps, two table models, photo courtesy Giacomo Ravagli

Barometro Lamps is the first collection signed by young Tuscan designer Giacomo Ravagli exclusively for Edizioni Nilufar in the occasion of Milano Design Week 2011 – with a special preview at PAD Paris 2011.

Barometro Lamps is a family of table and floor lamps composed by a rare Italian marble base – as the Rosso Levanto – Giacomo Ravagli has chosen for its beauty, the marvel of the tones as well as the rarefaction of its quarrying.

The lampshades are formed by sophisticated, unexpected twisted and cut lamina of noble and unstable metals as copper, at which the designer assigns, time by time, a controlled ageing grade or that he presents in its natural beauty.

The Rosso Levanto has a red background, is bathed by white veins of calcite and quartz but, sometimes, surprising green layers of serpentine superbly punctuate the pieces on show.

Barometro Lamps collection embodies a patient carving and twisting artisanal fine knowledge that pursues the golden section with which the bases and lampshades are designed and made. Each lamp is an unique piece made entirely by hands.

Metals - especially the copper, a ductile and delicate material that changes also according to atmosphere pressure – are confronting themselves with the stunning fixity of the stone, by inducing a colour and highly tactile crasis that can also be read as a blend among caducity, temporariness and durability.

Made in two models (table and floor lamps), Barometro project a dense and fragmented light ray carved thanks to the fracted dimensions of lampshades. When the lamps are switched on, the marble base is deep-drenched in red-orange tones coming from the bottom and the edge of the light point. When the lamps are switched off, is the marble to dictate the chromatic scale to the piece, which coils remind, in a clever geometrical game-mind, the base corners.

Giacomo Ravagli: “I am sculptor since ten years. Marble means imagination, patience, stubborness. Above all marble means courage: to reign over it, to modify, to soften, to deflate, even to kill it means to engage an inner match up with myself and with all my creative gestures because when you start to carve it is uneasy to return back.”

Barometro Lamps at PAD (15 Pavillon des arts et du design), Paris
Stand N°: 68 Gallery Nilufar www.padparis.net/

Wednesday 30th March till Sunday 3rd April 2011. Everyday from 11 am to 8 pm Evening Opening: Thursday 31th March till 11 pm || Tuileries – Paris 1er Esplanade des Feuillants Facing 234, rue de Rivoli

Barometro Lamps at Milano Design Week 2011: Galleria Nilufar, Via Della Spiga 30-32 (MI), inner court

www.nilufar.com/ from 12 to 17 April 2011: opening monday April 11, 2011 hour: 6.30-11 pm

 

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