Artemide presented this variably adaptable LED lamp at this year’s light+building in Frankfurt. German director of Artemide Steffen Salinger gave us this informative introduction.


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The wall lamp ‘Écran’ is the second creation the French designer Inga Sempé designed for the Italian manfacturer Luceplan. Its body is made from cast aluminium. The diffuse illumination, produced by an energy-saving halogen bulb, is doubled to reach the setting both directly, through the white silk-screened glass diffuser, and indirectly, through a slit in the wall support towards the wall.

'Écran' by Inga Sempé for Luceplan

‘Archetype’ is a lamp with a classical shape, inspired by the traditional Scandinavian design adopted by Goodmorning Technology, the Danish company signing the project.

Its exterior structure is in painted aluminium and the internal diffuser is in transparent polycarbonate; integrated between these two elements is a warm white LED and an E27 screw attachment for connection to any standard-size traditional bulb holder.

'Archetype' by Goodmorning Technology

'Archetype' by Goodmorning Technology for Luceplan

'Archetype' by Luceplan

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'Tabard' by Denis Santachiara

Known for his ironic and figurative works Denis Santachiara designed this illuminated coat hanger for the Italian manufacturer Pallucco. ‘Tabard’ consists of an elegant and rigid shell whose shape is reminiscent of one of the most representative garments of the late eighteenth century: the tabard, a long seamless overcoat which you wrapped around the body. Here it is the revolutionary illuminated coat hook that turns 120° and the roles have been inverted.

'Tabard' by Denis Santachiara

'Tabard' by Denis Santachiara

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Led Net Circle by Michele De Lucchi and Alberto Nason for Artemide

This LED suspension light by Michele De Lucchi and Alberto Nason designed for Artemide is one of the novelties the Italian manufacturer presents at this year`s light+building in Frankfurt. It is composed of an aluminium plate onto which a printed circuit board for the LEDs is fitted. Each LED is fitted with a transparent methacrylate lens and a satin finish methacrylate lens-holder.

Led Net by Michele De Lucchi and Alberto Nason for Artemide

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"Lanterna" by Bevk Perovic Arhitekti

At the last light+building two year`s ago the Slovanian manufacturer Vertigo Bird launched its first collection and demonstrated its high potential. With this year`s collection they fulfill all our expectations.

“Lantern” is a portable table/floor light, intended for indoor use, a lamp to carry around the house and place anywhere you like – much like the traditional kerosene lamps our ancestors lit and carried through history.

"Funnel" by Bevk Perovic Arhitekti for Vertigo Bird

"Funnel" by Vertigo Bird

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"Double C-Future" by Ingo Maurer and team

We remember the first stunning OLED (organic light emitting diode) works by Ingo Maurer from the light+building in 2008. This year the German designer and manufacturer (and icon of lighting design) is presenting his new developments of OLED lightings. The lamps were designed in collaboration with the OLED – manufacturers Osram and Novaled. Like we know it from some of his former pieces Ingo Maurer does not hide the technical parts behind a casing but accentuates the beauty of the lamp`s technology.

"OLED Double C" by Ingo Maurer

"Double T-Future" by Ingo Maurer in collaboration with Osram

"4 x 4 is 34" by Ingo Maurer in collaboration with Novaled

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'Scantling' by Mathias Hahn

The German born and London based designer Mathias Hahn realised the lighting series ‘Scantling’ for the Spanish manufacturer Marset. The beautiful almost archetypal family is presented at this year’s light+building in Frankfurt for the first time.

'Scantling' by Mathias Hahn for Marset

“All of the movements of the fully rotating shade use arms and hinges, and its technical precision means that springs or counterweights are not necessary in order to maintain the selected position.”

'Scantling' by Mathias Hahn for Marset

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'Crown' by Formfjord

How to perforate a metal sheet volume without using a costly 3D-laser cutter: Soon, during this year’s light+building in Frankfurt the Berlin based designers of Formfjord will present brand new prototypes of their newest extremely smart lighting project ‘Crown’. In fact this series of pendant lights is producible with more or less common tools. Plane sheet metal is laser cut and canted in the accordant angles. The volume accrues after putting together the two endings and fixing them with two tiny screws. The ribs are cramped by two discs on top. In order to avoid a complicated bicoloured powder coating the designers decided to use a filter which is magnetically fixed on the inside of the lamp shade and lets it shine in a decent colour – coated by light.


Find Formfjord at Hall 1.1, booth E46 G.

'Crown' by Formfjord

'Crown' by Formfjord

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