Jan.28, 2014
Here we have a beautiful example of how 3D printing can be used to make very stylish design. Italian designer Alessandro Zambelli designed a new collection of lamps for .exnovo. He calls the collection "Afillia," a name borrowed from botany. In plant terms, it means leafless, though not lifeless: surely an apt image for a collection of luminous essentials and airy voids.
The Afillia range of six lighting accessories consists of three table lamps and three pendant lights. The base or socket ring is in Swiss pine, a premium wood from the Alto Adige mountains, hand-crafted according to the region's ancient traditions. The wood fitting locks on to a light diffuser in polyamide (also known as nylon fibre), which were created using Selective Laser Sintering technology by company .Exnovo that specializes in professional 3D printing.
The centrepiece of each accessory is a diffuser which embraces and embellishes space. Delicate, lace-like patterns with their geometrical pinholes give rise to two-dimensional origami in thin, curvaceous spirals. Free to waver at will, the light casts fleeting shadows, then beams into unexpected focus, forming compact halos, round and bright. This is energy in fluid form, in the no-man's land between stuff and shape, air and light.
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