Cespuglio

When I was asked to design a lamp, I had just caught sight of and much admired cardboard models of mini-sculptures by Balla, at the Galleria l’Obelisco in Rome. They were stars, suns, trees in two-dimensional pieces that, when fitted together, produced the third dimension.If we go into the history of the birth of the Cespuglio lamp/object project, we find the stimulus of the Balla idea of fifty years earlier developed with a clearly pop approach. The spirit was nonetheless (as is still clear today) that of having a live and meaningful object even when switched off, and not communicating its light function.
It is not just a ‘machine’.