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Vico Magistretti Tikal lamp for FontanaArte

Vico Magistretti
Lamp FontanaArte to Tikal, Milan
Construct a geometry on the move in order to regulate the flow of light is the concept of the lamp Tikal presented at the Show this year by Vico Magistretti: the evolution of an old patent for a lamp flow variable that had lodged in 1972. Prior to this patent, other lamps followed the same concept, such as lamps daļu and, most importantly, the Eclipse, which had Magistretti designed in 1965. "Change the shape because it has changed the bulb. Take the Eclipse has scalded two or three generations. Today bulbs with fluorescent, no longer hot. " As Magistretti starts from the premise that "it is not an object sophisticated in terms of technology, the sophistication is rather in how the design deviates from the regular geometry, built around two hemispheres which rotate on the same axis, from which started the idea of the movement. To misalignment and asymmetries of the form a helmet Magistretti came to progressive adjustments, working directly on the body of the lamp. As composed of moving parts, it does not expose any mechanical element that makes explicit the operation. The form is perceived as a whole as mobile articulated body, which changes depending on the mutual position of its parts in space. It remains to ask if it Magistretti delivered at the time of the first patent alludesse the research of kinetics in vogue at that time: "These are things which I do not think ever. It’s just a bedside light, which moves so that it can be somewhat close ‘and thus adjust the flow of light. " F.P.

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