This Italian artist recovers antique objects to add shape and color to his lamps
Vespa Lamp, part of the Fantastic Lights series
Maurizio Lamponi is an artist from Milan who makes lamps and sculptures by recycling everyday refuse and objects. The resulting pieces are implausible, extravagant and very original.
Lamponi is not the first artist to have noticed the specially beauty of everyday objects. In Berlin, for instance, there’s the Museum of Things, a space that features some of the everyday objects that have surrounded us since the start of the 20th Century. This museum analyzes their functionality and design, two concepts that Lamponi has successfully put together in his lamp designs.
His pieces are organized in several collections. On the one hand, there’s Fantastic Lights, a series of retro-style lamps that were created using antique objects such as a gas pump, a siphon, a hairdryer, a coffee set, and even a vacuum cleaner! His lamps made of motorcycle handlebars deserve a special mention. He uses both Vespas and Lambrettas and adapts the motorbikes’ headlights to use as the lamp’s light source.
The Fly Lamps collection gathers the most elegant lamps made from aluminum airplanes, engines, gliders, and hydroplanes. And his Digressions in Wood (Divagazioni nel Legno) collection is made up of hand-made wooden sculptures. They are scale reproductions of German and Italian airplane models used in the Second World War.
Lamponi makes the lamps one at a time and only upon request. It takes him about 25 days to make each one and customers may choose either a painted, cast, or polished aluminum finish.
After looking at these lamps, you’ll see your hairdryer in a new light.
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Vespa Lamp, part of the Fantastic Lights series
