Carrara 2000
Floor Lamp
Luceplan, Italy
The floor lamp is a complex, ambiguous object. Less instinctive and historically well-established than its functional antecedents – the ceiling lamp or chandelier – the floor lamp is always trying to find the right balance between its base, which is always too big, its stem, which is never slender enough and its head, which is always too small. Alfredo Häberli has taken a different approach to the problem: drawing inspiration from the long history of the «Luminator» on the one hand, and from sculptural forms on the other, he has produced an object with truly continuous outline whose volumetrics are accentuated by the use of just one material and one colour, and give rise to ambiguous perceptions. Is it plaster? Is it ceramic? Is it heavy? That said, it will illuminate a ceiling and therefore a room, so it will also relate well to architecture.
