Stefano Boeri Architetti, 2019
FontanaArte chooses Stefano Boeri Architects and presents lasospesa
To marvel at FontanaArte is to surround yourself with masters.
It could not be otherwise for the company founded by Gio Ponti, which has had personalities such as Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti as artistic directors, and names such as Umberto Riva, Shigeru Ban, Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano as designers, to name but a few.
For Euroluce-2019, FontanaArte has invited Stefano Boeri Architetti to develop a new table lamp: „lasospesa“.
For one of the most famous Milanese architects in the world, whose Bosco Verticale is one of the most representative and iconic projects of our time, it is an interesting change of scale to switch from a skyscraper to a table lamp.
Like FontanaArte’s art: it takes shape in an object that does not exclude function, from which a light emerges. lasospesa is in fact a symmetrical table lamp, born from the elementary principle of housing two cylinders: a cylinder of primary light suspended in a cylinder of diffused light.
„A non-lamp with multiple uses and changing luminosity, simple and classic, lasospesa seems to have always been where you put it,“ says Stefano Boeri.
The essence of the diffused light table lamp is created by an external diffuser-rigorous glass in the style of FontanaArte-with four different finishes:
- Transparent and striped,
- frosted,
- copper-painted,
- smoked.
The inner diffuser is frosted borosilicate glass.
„One of the interpreters of contemporary style-not only in architecture and design-has conceived a further step of timeless continuity for FontanaArte“-confirms Francesco Librizzi, artistic director of FontanaArte.
The presentation by Managing Director Giuseppe Di Nuccio opens the Design Week and the series of initiatives involving Gae Aulenti’s archive, the Torre Branca and the new FontanaArte shop-in-shop in La Rinascente.
„We are proud to represent the whole during Design Week 2019 with Stefano Boeri and lasospesa and to present them in our flagship store in Corso Monforte, in Milan, which together with other stages of the week forms the FontanaArte Tour of Milan, a true tribute to Milan and its culture of design „- underlines Giuseppe Di Nuccio.
Designer: Stefano Boeri Architetti
„Lasospesa, a symmetrical table lamp born from the elementary principle of two embedded cylinders: a cylinder of primary light suspended in another cylinder of diffused light“ (Stefano Boeri)
The architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri is a professor at the Politecnico in Milan and a visiting professor at several international universities. In Shanghai, he is director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai: a postdoctoral research program that investigates the future of contemporary metropolises from the perspectives of biodiversity and urban forestry.
In November 2018, he co-chaired the Scientific Committee for the first World Forum on Urban Forests, organized in Mantua together with the FAO.
Director of the Domus and Abitare reviews and author of several publications, he was Councillor for Culture in Milan from 2011 to 2013 and was appointed President of the Fondazione La Triennale di Milano in February 2018. Stefano Boeri Architetti’s work ranges from the production of urban visions and architecture to interior design.
The focus on the relationship between city and nature leads to the creation of the Vertical Forest, which sees vegetation as an essential element of architecture. Built in Milan in 2014, the Vertical Forest has won numerous international awards.
The studio, based in Milan with offices in Shanghai and Tirana, works on international urban forestry projects such as the Tirana 2030 General Local Plan, the Vertical Forests in Paris, Lausanne, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Nanjing, as well as several models of Forest City around the world.
FontanaArte was born in Milan in 1932 from the meeting of Gio Ponti – the great father of Italian architecture with Luigi Fontana, glass entrepreneur and Pietro Chiesa, master of glass art.
Fontanaarte accompanies the exploration of Italian modernism, for which glass and metal are the expression of a new idea of beauty, which is characterized by light and transparency. Its history is characterized by the production of luminaires and every kind of solution that brings light into the inhabited space, a timeless mission that is handed down between icons and new products.
