Milan: FF 2013 – Lights: Artemide –
Elliott Erwitt Meets Jean Nouvel. The story behind the table lamp Objective designed for Artemide,
and the day Jean Nouvel and photographer Elliott Erwitt met in Paris. For Jean
Nouvel and his approach to the use of light as an architectural expression gave
fruit to the small-sized Objective lamp, which encloses all the technological
wisdom and lighting skills in favor of a personal interpretation of individual
space.
Artemide:
Objective table lamp by jean Nouvel. A
cylinder is broken down into four parts, each with its own movements and
functions. The character of the object, a tube containing different sets of
optics, recalls the lens of a still or movie camera and its manipulation, with
the three different segments housing three different light sources:
a) ambient
light coming from the glass segment.
b) a
spotlight focused, from the first head, onto the reading matter or work
surface.
c) light
pointed upwards from the floodlight in the second head.
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