dandelion

The Dandelion lamp just looks like a Taraxacum with its fluffy seed ball that it easily blown away with just one puff and it is borne of a thin and flexible stalk that seems to be swaying in the air. The lighting unit consists of a ball of transparent flutes diffusing the LED-generated light. It is available in floor lamp and hanging lamp versions.

Published by The International Design Yearbook,
exhibited at Triennale di Milano [the new Italian design] 2007 + Istituto Italiano di Cultura Madrid
selected by Charlotte and Peter Fiell for Design Now! Taschen 2007/2008

TYPOLOGY: hanging and floor lamp
COMPANY: Tecnodelta spa
PHOTO CREDITS: on white field Davide Gallico AD&D; on black field Yoshie Nishikawa
RENDER CREDITS:Lodovico Calicante

PLEASE NOTE:
NOVEMBER 2008_A&D Acquisition Committee of MOMA NYC add Dandelion Lamp to the permanent collection

Matteo Bazzicalupo and Raffaella Mangiarotti are architects and designers. Post graduated magna cum laude in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano. They are both lecturers at the Politecnico di Milano, and they are also teachers in a number of Universities and design Institutes. In 1995 they found deepdesign. They have explored new scenarios and designed products in different design fields for: Aldo Coppola, Barilla, Castelli Haworth, Coca Cola, Coin, Coop, Daimler Chrysler, Fratelli Rossetti, Giorgetti, Glaxo Smithkline, Guzzini, JVC, Kimberly - Clark Corp. Kitchen Aids, Kraft Suchard, Imetec, Mandarina Duck, Matsushita, Misuraemme, NEC, RSVP, San Lorenzo, San Pellegrino, Turin Olympiads 2006 (Italy), Whirlpool Europe. They won design competitions organized by JVC and Matsushita.
They received several prizes, in particular Young & Design, ID Award (2004) and Selezione Compasso d?Oro(2005).
Some of their projects are published on The international Design Yearbook 2005, on L'observatoire International de Premi?re Vision, and on The International Design Encyclopedia of MOMA, Design Now! Taschen 2008.

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