Behance Served Sites

Served is a collection of sites that showcase category specific content from Behance, the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries.

View All Served Sites →

ARCHETYPAL LAMP

Info
Statistics
Created: 03/23/09
Last Edited: 04/03/09
Views: 2951
Appreciations: 109
Comments: 11
Description
ARCHETYPAL is a family of lamps which question the idea of the archetype of the lamp. The whole image of a lamp becomes the lampshade, being suspended in the air as a floating element. The form represents a blury image which is there and not there. It is like an element which belong to the memory. The material for the lamp shade is blown glass but whith three different finishing: frosted, clear and vacuum metalised. The vacuum metalising gives a mirror finishing that becomes clear when light passes through and the idea is that when the lamps glows acquires its identity of lamp. The base of the table lamp is made of stainless steel and cork. The frame of the wall lamp is also made of the same materials.
Share
Short link: http://bit.ly/cj1BCV
  • ARCHETYPAL is a family of lamps which questions the idea of the archetype. The archetypal object is an abstract element that belongs to our memory and helps us define a unique representation of a type of object."

  • The idea is that the whole lamp becomes the lamp shade. The top is made of blown glass and has three different finishings: frosted, clear and mirror. The idea is that it is a floating shape which is there and it is not there, as a blury image of a lamp.
  • The mirror finishing is achieved by a manufacturing process called "vacuum metalising", which allows the element to reflect its environment but when it glows it becomes clear and lets the light through. The idea is that the lamp is granted its identity when it glows.