Artemide Alphabet Circular Suspension Lamp
Alphabet of light is a language based on light intended to convey freedom, an elementary principle generating an open system. BIG starts from an abacus of essential geometries to design a new font that translates into light, an alphabet used to write and to express one’s thoughts, a tool to give shape to spaces. It allows to design light in space with words, as well as with graphic signs. Two linear elements of different lengths and two round ones are combined with a system of letters, numbers, and symbols. The round elements, available in two diameters, can be separated into modules to join the linear elements together according to different angles, thus designing everchanging geometries. These simple base modules, with specific geometric proportions, can be combined with each other to create countless basic or more complex, linear or curved structures of light, thus producing suspension appliances matching with architectures or space functions. The idea of BIG joins the optoelectronic competence of Artemide to define an innovative construction principle and provide continuous and comfortable lighting. While it has a minimal presence, it encloses groundbreaking patented optoelectronic and mechanical innovation.
MEASUREMENTS:
Small
- Diameter: 90 cm / 35.4 inch
- Height: 50 - 150 cm / 19.75 - 59.2 inch
Large
- Diameter: 155 cm / 61 inch
- Height: 50 - 150 cm / 19.75 - 59.2 inch
MATERIALS:
- Aluminum frame suspended by steel cables
- Illuminated tubes in opaque injection molded PMMA resin
HELPFUL NOTES:
- LED-I 55W 3000K >80 CRI 6304lm Integrated light source
- LED-I 98W 3000K >80 CRI 12667lm Integrated light source
- Small: 6 modules assembled
- Large: 8 modules assembled
- 360° light emission
- Suitable for damp locations
Bjarke Ingels
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is a Copenhagen, New York and London based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors established in 2006. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economic flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization.
They believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. Like a form of programmatic alchemy they create architecture and design by mixing conventional ingredients, by hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia.
Founded in Milan by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza in the 1960s, Artemide is a worldwide leader in lighting design, committed to technological innovation, research, and human interaction. Artemide aligned with the Memphis Design Movement and was an early proponent of LED technology. Ethical conduct and social responsibility are at the heart of Artemide’s values.
Artemide’s expansive catalog spans Logico’s organic and elegant hand-made blown glass diffusers to the Castore family’s clean and simple spheres. They have created award-winning, iconic collaborations with some of the world’s most talented designers, including Naoto Fukasawa, David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Karim Rashid, and Herzog & De Meuron, upholding Italy’s reputation for excellence and innovation.
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