wall lamp

F ( A ) G L I E is a design wall lamp in Origami Style: it came out from the idea to bend and carve a metal sheet up to turn it into an articulated volume, that, by projecting light through a pattern of cuts engraved on its surface, draws the wall with an evocative texture of shadows.

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I'm very attached to this project, because this wall lamp is my first step in design.

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As often happens, this adventure started a little by chance with an unexpected opportunity.

Some years ago my boyfriend, that in the meanwhile had become my husband, worked for a while, for a society that produces the industrial machines for the laser cutting. They had to do contiual test on the machines to verify the functionality and accuracy of the cut; he proposed me to use this technology to give shape and body to some ideas on which I was working for some time.

I took on with this new challenge with great enthusiasm: I was fascinating by the idea to create tridimensional elements from the simple metal sheet.

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So, a little for fun, I developed  some “origami” style  projects, investigating  the idea of drawing the wall and the space not only with the decorative element itself, but , above all, with the reflections and the shadows it generates when it’s lighted.

 

F ( A ) G L I E   wall lamp was projected to be easy to be realized and to be transported.

Starting from the drawing on the paper, the laser machine replicates the elaborated texture on a metal sheet realizing the structure of the lamp and defining the bending lines.
The output of this process is still a light sheet, easily transportable. Bending, the sheet becomes a volume , ready to be fixed on the wall .

The  game is to draw the wall : by  superposing the patter of the metal sheet and the patter of his own shadows  during the day, and, by night,  when the lamp is on, casting  a texture of  light all around.

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I exposed  this wall lamp in "origami" style for the first time in Salone Satellite 2013, during Milan Design Week.

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