Apollo_3

Описание: For the design of this lighting fixture, we have read and reinterpreted design sketches for the Grip lamp and the Toio lamp. During the research, analyzing the lighting equipment of the Castiglioni brothers, in particular the floor lamps, we noticed that these were mainly formed by three overall dimensions such as: base, body and source. So we made a floor lamp that took up the technical and formal principles of their projects, especially the Toio lamp. The Apollo 3 lamp was born from these reflections. It is a lighting fixture consisting of a base consisting of a marble cylinder and a curved iron rod at the end of which a second angular iron rod is welded. The body is formed by a boom of a microphone, which symbolically recalls the theme of ready made and the shape of the Grip lamp. Finally, at the end of the rod is the source which, by means of a joint, “occupies” the position of a microphone. Thanks to the microphone holder and the movements of the main pole, the source can be oriented in different directions. In fact, this fixture can be used both for reading but also to illuminate an environment like a classic floor lamp. Finally, as regards the choice of the name, we decided to call it Apollo 3, where for Apollo we refer to the mythological god of the Sun, 3 is the number of encumbrance elements (base, body and source) and overall this lamp it recalled a “spacecraft” from which the reference to the Apollo11 space mission was born.