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well to the requirements for a lightweight lamp body, which would have a
non-invasive, almost ethereal physical impact. Over two years of research
was required to make Mite, a lamp produced in the year 2000, with a body
in woven glass fibre wrapped in carbon or kevlar® fiber thread.
To produce a fixture which could adequately transmit the luminous flux, a
suitable construction technology was found – roving – and a mold and
appropriate form were slowly perfected. In recent years the
experimentation of materials and technologies conducted by Foscarini has
become quite significant; it begins with the specific requirements of the
project, developed within a context dedicated to research and
characterized by total freedom to use a variety of productive and
technological resources.
To allow the electric wires, suitably insulated, to pass through the ring-
shaped body of the O-space suspension, high density polyurethane foam
was used, leaving the central circumscribed space totally and suggestively
free; the technology of rotomoulding was experimented to produce Blob;
and stretched metal mesh, covered in transparent silicone resin, served as
both the supporting casing and the shade for the Bague table lamp,
created in 2003.
preceding pages:
Supernova, Ferruccio Laviani, 2000
at top:
details of the metal mesh in Bague
processing of the composite material for the
Mite shade
next page:
section and volume of O-space
