Designed: 2010
Suspension Light
Origin: Italy
With Norma our gaze is once again fixed on the East, but this time the Orient is filtered by the evocative fascination of early-20th-century Vienna. The large gilded sphere is in fact made up of hundreds of light "laurel" leaves, a clear citation of one of the most important monuments in the history of 20th-century architecture, Joseph Maria Olbrich's Secession Hall in Vienna.
While in Vienna it was sunlight that made the gold shine with a thousand sparkles, here the light is filtered from the inside. It is a softened light, the glow of an opera house, of velvet-lined theatre boxes and flowing dresses.
Norma is a "polemic" chandelier with contemporary lighting-design, which is often cold and excessively revealing. Norma instead projects a sense of mystery, concealing more than it exposes. The laurel leaf harks back to the far-off times of heroes and poets, from the Plains of Olympus to the bard D'Annunzio. And unexpected glass protrusions twinkle in the dark.
Suspension light with brass structure with gilded leaves and transparent blown glass elements
Bulb: 23W E27 Fluorescent bulb (not included)
Size: Shade Dia 60 cm, Max Drop 200 cm.
