Laviani’s Lovely Lamps Light Up Milan Design Week
By Joe Wertz
Black when it’s off, white when it’s on, Ferruccio Laviani’s Tati Lamp looks a bit like an old TV or a spacey Star Trek terminal. Commissioned by plastic-loving Italian furniture and lighting outlet Kartell for Milan Design Week 2009, the tabletop lamp has simple lines and a shiny smooth surface perfect for a Sharpie-sketched robot face. Laviani’s Bloom Lamp is the complete opposite of the Tati aesthetic. Build around a bowed framework; scores of translucent plastic flowers line the lamp’s curvy form and are arranged like sparkly light-shrubs or molded into dress-like lamp shapes. [via designbloom]
