“The idea of attaching an optically cumbersome lamp to a cable called for a morphologically evanescent solution, that would make it light and airy”
Giancarlo Fassina
“We spent two years at the drawing board, making models and prototypes, then came up with this simple expressive no-frills form, which surprised even us”
Carlo Forcolini
“Hydra is an object reduced to the minimum that expresses a personal language of lightness, freedom of movement and tactility. It is a small kinetic machine, the movement of which is regulated by an archaic but efficient mechanism”
Norman Foster
“The smallest details of a building, from door handles to taps, are often taken for granted, but it is these small elements with which building's users have direct contact. “
Jehs & Laub
“With its compact design and robust looks, Constellation is much more than a straigjtforward lamp: it is a work of precision, like a ship’s porthole or the watches worn by the military”.
Vico Magistretti
“The most important thing for me is conceptual simplicity, which is usually translated into constructive clarity.
A conceptually simple object could be made just using the telephone.”
Stefano Marcato
"A warm and soft light, a pure, essential and elegant shape, an evergreen lamp. It sometimes changes its look, but it remains the one we have always seen in our home"
Ilaria Marelli
“A slit of light in a monolithic mass:
Ara is the contrast between the material and the immaterial that is the basis of every lighting project.”
Hikaru Mori
“Iota is honest, sincere and simple. It is your companion, it lights up for you in an intelligent way while remaining discreet, like a good servant”
Karim Rashid
“It was a lazy Sunday afternoon in New York. I was so hot, I imagined something with a voluptuous shape, a swaying sensuous outline, that would keep me cool and bright: my hair was frizzi, frizzi”
