FOSCARINI ALLEGRO DESIGN BY ATELIER OI
FOSCARINI ALLEGRO DESIGN BY ATELIER OI
Allegro is an entire family of hanging lamps that take
on their shape thanks to the force of gravity, created with metal lines that
design the light and emit sounds when they touch. The collection name is
inspired exactly to this “musicality”. There are three versions, according to
the finish of the metal elements, to express three different styles: Allegro
Ritmico in black, Allegro Vivace in brown and Allegro Assai in gold. Their king
size make them perfect to feature large public and private spaces, with a
diffused downwards light that reflects off the ceiling.
Description Suspension lamp with diffused, direct and
indirect light. The lamp consists of a chromed metal frame and epoxy powder
coated full aluminium rebar rods. The rods are anchored to the mount using
small metal rings. Fitted with three stainless steel suspension cables and a
transparent electrical cable. Ceiling rose with galvanised metal bracket and
glossy chromed metal cover. Designed to accommodate the separate lighting of
the two light sources. Canopy decentralisation kit available.
Materials lacquered metal
Colors Ritmico black, Vivace brown, Assai gol
– Its raw material is the force of gravity, which has
shaped its form. Its challenge is to use non-transparent material to create an
interplay of light. Its name is inspired by the music that emanates from the
aluminium bars as they brush together, moving freely in space.
– Is it a lamp, a musical instrument or an
installation? It is all this and much more. Allegro is the result of the
partnership between Foscarini and Atelier Oï, a trio of designer, architects
and set designers, to create a work of art on an industrial scale.
– Allegro Assai, Vivace, Ritmico… with an endless
number of compositions and opportunities for customisation. Alone or in a
group, for a selected few or for the public at large. It is always the main
focus, yet virtually immaterial. Another interpretation of light, in a
Foscarini key.
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FOSCARINI
FOSCARINI
A company that gives form to ideas. A creative and
technological workshop that conceives, develops and produces not only lamps but
pure emotions, in collaboration with many other designers from around the
world. A company that is free, passionate, unconventional and right at the
heart of the industry in which it thrives. This is Foscarini.
01. INTRO
A designing and technological tour de force, Foscarini
explores an entire world of materials and solutions. Their research atelier
experiments, free of any mental barriers or technical restraints through
flexible, efficient and high quality production, while the sales and logistics
organisation distributes with equal care all over the world the smallest table
lamp to the largest lighting set. Foscarini: a special personality in the world
of lighting.
02. COMPANY
Foscarini’s headquarters are housed in an
architect-designed, contemporary building in synchronize with its corporate
mission to provide cutting edge design and sales service with logistics and
warehousing providing total quality control.
In the mid 1990’s, Foscarini’s wish to provide design
service to international markets led to a strategic move from the island of
Murano to Marcon, on the Venetian terra firma. Here, they built a new facility,
whose modern aesthetic is aligned with Foscarini’s creative corporate spirit.
With the same spirit that provides new ideas in
lighting design, Foscarini also creates its own more efficient programs for
customer and partner communication. For instance, My Foscarini, a proprietary
IT platform allows 24/7 connectivity to current product availability, order
placement and shipment tracking.
In 1996 Foscarini obtained UNI EN ISO 9001
certification which guarantees the quality of all the company processes, from
designing to production, to customer services. This Certification has been
complemented since 2012 with the ISO 14001 Environmental Certification that
confirms the company's commitment to continual improvement of its enviromental
performances.
03. FOCUS
Why are Foscarini lamps so different from each other,
yet share common concepts and values?
Foscarini focuses on developing new products but
chooses only to put into production those that express new ideas. While
inspiration is always valued, Foscarini’s development phase sometimes takes years
of progressive research to analyze materials, shapes, processes and operating
modes that sometimes lead to results drastically different from the initial
concept. This is why Foscarini lamps are so innovative yet built to weather the
whim of trends and become true classics.
04. COLLECTION
Over 60 models, more than 20 different materials and
more than 30 designers come together to form a collection of individual lamps,
each with a unique story to address a need with striking beauty.
With a surprising visual simplicity, often the result
of complicated but concealed technology, Foscarini’s lamps have an impeccable
logic that goes beyond the conventional and the commonplace. From its founding,
in the early 1980s, Foscarini has stood out from other Murano glass lamp
manufacturers because it did not have its own furnace. Not tied to a particular
manufacturing process, Foscarini could pick, the most suitable supplier for
each project in question.
This freedom led Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro
Vecchiato, first as designers then as the company managers, to experiment with
materials and processes other than blown glass. As a result, the collection
could flexibly respond to a changing world as new materials and technologies
became available
05. DESIGNERS
Design first and foremost. Thought before shape. The
spirit of the project guides the choice of material. These are the
distinguishing traits of a huge “work in progress” that teams up great maestros
and young talents.
Foscarini has so many designs, both from young
designers as well as established names, which have gained much notoriety.
06. PROJECTS
Foscarini’s flexibility and desire to collaborate with
designers have enabled it to develop custom projects by grouping their lamps in
large numbers, responsive to the most diverse contemporary settings.
The company is willing to produce custom products,
simply by changing standard finishes and compositions. Foscarini also devises
specific solutions for large spaces in the form of light sculptures that are
the result of the creative assembly of standard lamps. This has given rise to
lighting events, including Fiber Evolution in collaboration with Marc Sadler
and Tropico with Giulio Iachetti, which have travelled across the design
capitals of Europe and the U.S.A.
This acquired experience led to the coining of a
program called Foscarini Evolution to communicate the company’s ability to
collaborate with designers and experiment with diverse materials and exploit
the infinite composition potential of standard models to surprising effect.
07. CULTURE
Foscarini contributes to spreading and supporting
design culture: from its sponsorship of the Art and Architecture Biennale in
Venice, to the inclusion of its products in the collection of New York’s MoMA,
the Milan Triennial Exhibition and a large number of other international
museums, to the launching of new publishing initiatives.
The positive experience with Lux magazine, which from
2002 to 2008 was, the spokes piece for new ideas, materials and creative
stimuli, led to the creation of “INVENTARIO – Everything is a project”. It is
not intended as an advertising vehicle for Foscarini, but rather as a genuine
magazine-book, directed by Beppe Finessi, architect and university lecturer and
distributed on an international scale in the best bookshops and major museum
bookshops. A free and illuminated look at the universe of design and the world
we live in: design, architecture and art, it also contains strange life
stories, analyses of objects created by nature and other freestyle topics.
Without feeling constrained, without ties to the
Foscarini brand and its products: in the belief that everything that surrounds
us, every moment we experience is a project to be shared with others. Through
its support of INVENTARIO, Foscarini conveys its own values and looks forward
attentively and curiously, to the pure pleasure of experimenting, innovating,
creating: as always in the spirit of this company and of the people who work
within it or with it every day.
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‘’ For us work is never an individual endeavor and a
creative path is never a solo journey.
We always work in a team and everyone is
part of a process. Thus, every single one
of us has to be able to allow others
space. ‘’
ATELIER ‘’ OI ‘’
AUREL
AEBI, ARMAND LOUIS & PATRICK REYMOND
Atelier OI
was founded in La Neuveville, Switzerland, in 1991 by Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis
and Patrick Reymond. The name “oï”, which is derived from the Russian word
troïka, a type of harnessing with three horses abreast, conveys the dynamism
and holistic energy generated by a trio. Atelier OI is the result of an
alliance rooted in humanity and art alike, it is about sharing values and
ideals. The desire of the three founders to grow and to venture together on a
journey that never denies the three individual histories is the intangible bond
that has linked the trio for 20 years. The alliance brings together three open
and creative minds willing to share their visions. No doubt, the three
founders’ profound involvement with architecture, design and naval construction
as well as the encounter with charismatic personalities such as Alberto
Sartoris and Ettore Sottsass have shaped atelier oï’s philosophy. At the heart
of this philosophy is the refusal to remain within the confines of a single
discipline. At atelier oï the idea of multidisciplinarity is epitomized
by the word “ atelier ” which is a place of creation, of mastery of
intellectual knowledge and manual know-how. On an international scale the work
of atelier oï ranges from architecture and interior design to product
design and scenography.
THE
PROCESS
“
The creative process is a continuum that has neither beginning nor end. 20
years ago we embarked on our journey whose routes and turns – regardless of
disciplines or scale — have always been determined by the materials with which
we work. The process is nourished by our life experience and our know-how,
sparking chain reactions that in turn generate new discoveries each day. We
wanted our journal to retrace this process and invite you on a cruise from our
past work to our future destinations.”
PHILOSOPHIE
CREATIVE
The
creations of atelier oï, always elegant and conceived with simplicity,
express the yearning for a harmonic and natural unity. They aspire to epitomize
a “po-ethic” vision of creativity, to bring the individual closer to the
elements, to nature, to the material and to emotions. A rich palette of
inspirations and elements supports the creative process: music, colours, light,
scents and movement. And there is the possibility to drastically change a
perspective, to make unexpected use of a given shape, to venture into the
thousand and one facets of materials … The final purpose is to create a sense
of pleasure and “ levitas ” by carefully addressing individual needs and to
offer new narratives of quality of life in which ethics and reason are
prominent characters. Never purist nor minimalistic and always skilfully
realised according to the most rigorous standards atelier oï’s creations
seduce by arousing emotions, memory, senses and conscience. Thus, they wish to
provoke a mood, to touch the chords of wonderment and to awaken a sense of
grace and harmony.
THE
MATERIAL, AN ENDLESS SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
When
bringing a new project to life, be it in architecture or in design,
atelier oï ’s first creative inspiration always stems from observation of
the context. It is this context that suggests the theme around which
atelier oï create and cultivate the content through a har - monious
dialogue among different ele - ments. The starting point of the process is
often the material: its nature, its potential af- finities, its reaction to
external stimuli and its interaction with other materials. Understanding the
nature of the context and the possibilities the material offers opens creative
perspectives on the search of a harmony where the material itself can enter
into a relationship and inter - act with more intangible elements like sound,
movement and color. Therefore, experimenting is an essential aspect of
atelier oï’s approach: the ob - jects often spring from an intuitive and
emotional rapport with the material. The material is explored, touched and
turned with an indefatigable curiosity in the quest for knowledge and discovery.
SAVOIR-FAIRE
From
the very beginning, the knowhow and skill that coalesce at atelier oï were the
antithesis to a monoculture. The works are a celebration of diversity, a true
fusion of disciplines that are often considered separate entities. This way of
thinking and working intensi- fies the creative process, it expands the
frontiers of imagination. New perspectives are opened and entirely new scales
are possible. The elements of a project are allowed to become a source of
inspiration from which something new can spring or be transformed and developed
in a different context. Thus the objects vary in scale and in disciplines, and
everything seems to be forever merging and emerging in a permanent
metamorphosis. Fusion, the overarching theme at atelier oï, combines
scenography, museography and expography. It is systematically integrated in
atelier oï’s general process and applied to every single project. In each
and every project you will find architecture, design and scenography without
the slightest barrier.
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