Kabuki Kartell
The history of the Italian furniture manufacturer Kartell began in the early 50s with the production of car parts made of plastic. Later, the Italian manufacturer moved on to produce laboratory equipment before expanding its portfolio with numerous furnishings and eventually developed from the 1970s into one of the most important producers of designer furniture and home accessories in Europe. Working in close cooperation with renowned international designers Kartell are constantly realising new, surprising, practical objects, including lighting objects. Kartell lighting such as the Bourgie lamp by Ferruccio Laviani are among the famous classics of the company, and, and as with much of the company's lighting portfolio, impress through the interplay of transparency, colour and lightness; combinations which allow the Kartell table, wall and pendant lights to express the infinite possibilities of plastic in ever new and unique ways.
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Table lamp Teresa
Planet pendant light
Battery
Bourgie
Cindy
Planet
Mini Geen-A battery lighting
Light Air from Kartell
In 1958 the French sociologist Roger Caillois opined that "L'esprit du jeu est essentiel à la culture"1, 'the spirit of play is essential to culture', an opinion that finds an echo in a Charles Eames' "toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and...
...Certainly at the lamp level; the funnel, flacon, form of the lamps however meaning that the ceiling above the lamp is bathed in unfiltered, untransformed light, thereby enabling the Burn Lace lamps to offer two levels of indirect lighting... And which posses the question if some form of positionable 'cap' might not be an option to allow for more control of the lighting, of the atmosphere...
...Born and raised in Leipzig, Nadja Schulze completed her Bachelor in Innenarchitektur at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle in the spring of 2023, before beginning an Interior Architecture Master's at the Burg in the autumn of 2023, a Master's in the course of which three lamps, three lamp families, arose, LiLa, Bow and 360°: the lattermost, wall lamps that you turn like an olde worlde telephone dial and as you do the cable rolls in and out thereby providing for both cable storage and a graphic element; the middlemost a flexible, positionable, wall lamp inspired by, and constructed from, tent poles; the foremost Lightweight Lamps, a modular lighting system inspired by tent poles, developed from Bow, that can exist as a wall, floor or ceiling version, and can not only be extended or reduced as a wall, floor or ceiling version, but switched between a wall, floor or ceiling version... As did we when we met up with Nadja in Halle to discuss light, lighting, interiors and design, but started at the beginning with the question why interior design, interior architecture, what is, was, the fascination with interiors...
As the, then, still plain Walter Scott, so nearly opined in 1806: "November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, I thought, what an excellent month to visit an...
...Following on from the co-winners of the inaugural Grassimesse smow-Designpreis Hevesi Annabella/Line and Round and Cornelius Réer the winner of the 2nd edition is Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Interior Architecture Masters student, Nadja Schulze for her lighting projects LiLa, Bow and 360°... Including the connecting of several lighting elements to create long chains of light rather than the single sources as presented at the 2024 Grassimesse...
