Wagashi Lighting by Luca Nichetto
In collaboration with Massimo Gardone, Luca Nichetto have created Wagashi Lighting, a very beautiful wall hung or ceiling lamp.
Collaboration with: Massimo Gardone
Material: Metallic structure and covering with woven printer for sublimation
Typology: Ceiling / wall lamp
Client: Foscarini
Year: 2007/2008
Poetry and practicality, concepts that are seemingly distant, combine in Wagashi, a large wall and ceiling light that represents the osmosis between different sensibilities and skills in different fields: photography and design on the artistic side and, on the entrepreneurial front, Foscarini’s expertise in interpreting projects and translating them into serial creations.
Together with the interaction of eclectic synergies that have combined photographic design with lighting, there is a wide range of research in this project: in materials, in the selection of printing techniques and image transfer onto the chosen fabric and in the choice of the most suitable colors, thanks to the help of the ‘Master of Colors’ Giulio Ridolfo. Wagashi is the perfect decor element. It has a strong presence that is full of personality, but is at the same time ethereal and elegant, with a pleasant synthesis of Eastern-inspired lines and decoration. Its name, Wagashi, is also a sign of this. Wagashi are artistic sweets that are part of ancient Japanese tradition, which appear in numerous varieties inspired by the changing of the seasons.
In the same way, the alternating pale and bright colors of petals and corollae, artistic photographs by Massimo Gardone, characterise the neutral fabric that combines with Luca Nichetto’s trademark simple, eccentric shapes in an interplay of shades, brushstrokes and chiaroscuro.
it is look like a animation…
but, is it true a lamp ?