Poltronova Lighting shell GHERPE

Gherpe is a lamp that interprets the classical form of the Nautilus shell with a cartoon-like ambiguity. The designer’s intention is to provoke a poetic reaction, and destabilise expectations of objects normally found in the home. Cristiano Toraldo di Francia recalls “perhaps infuenced by my keen interest in marine biology, one summer morning in 1967 I dreamt of a shape half animal, half artifcial. Once in my studio I immediately set to work, and built a model with several progressively lengthening strips of coloured sheet fastened across a wooden block with a single screw”. Both the lamp as well as the effect of the light can be changed by rotating its six moveable leaves around a central pivot. It can produce simple white light or an atmospheric, coloured glow.

Materials: Laser-cut and heat-formed perspex, chrome-plated brass fittings.

Dimension: 53 x 31 H 38 cm.

Colours: Fluorescent red or blue, opaline white.

Bulbs: max. 1 x 60W E 27.

Collections (a.o.): Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museè des Beaux Arts, Montreal, The Powerhouse Museum, Sidney...

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