Colombo
author
year
2021
dimensions
L 9; W 9; H 9 cm + egg
materiality
carrara white and guatemala green marble
category
light-switch
pieces
12 pieces L.E.
description
Why in interacting with our favorite lamps, design icons, often interaction is missing? I can rely on the usual boring switch, perhaps made of unnoticed black plastic, or even clap my hands, applaud, to turn on an automated light.
No.
The switch claims its well deserved right to be co-protagonist of the illuminated scene. After all, it’s thanks to him if the lamp does its job. Without click and without clap. It is a game of balance to close the magnetic-circuit, a balance that can be reached by grasping the switch, automatically testing its pleasant weight, low temperature, reflection, mineral texture, geometry of the smooth surface… Then you have to become Colombo and put the egg standing, an infantile experience of gravity, instinctive like a child’s game, difficult as turning on the light.
process
Two pieces of marble recovered from the marble cutter's leftovers pile are selected in agreement with the craftsmen (ArtigianmarmiGelpi, IT) and their experience, then sculpted with a combination of machinery and handwork to form an egg and its base. These are attached to a modified switch, custom made in collaboration with RVtuning (IT) to translate the magnetic contact into an open / closed position that allows it to operate electrical appliances up to 500 Watts (more than 60 low-consumption modern light bulbs).
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