Castore Table Lamp

$610 $944

SKU: ARTE/CASTORE/003-1049010A

Vendor: Artemide
Product Type: Table Lamp

DESCRIPTION

The Castore Table Lamp was designed by Huub Ubbens and Michele de Lucchi for the manufacturer Artemide.

Winner of Red Dot, Compasso d'Oro and Design Plus awards upon its release in 2004, the Castore Table Lamp is a fine example of de Lucchi's eye for elegant minimalism.

A sphere of milky, opalescent blown glass blends seamlessly into a downward-tapering stem of thermoplastic resin in the same monochrome neutral tone. The resulting shape echoes the simple, organic forms of nature.

Its serene looks are complemented by the gentle, diffuse light that it creates, subtly graduated where lamp meets base and fully controllable with a dimmer switch.

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About

Michele de Lucchi & Huub Ubbens

Huub Ubbens design pure and timeless products, characteristic which became his main signature. Over the years he have been working with this approach for companies like Panasonic, Castorama, Colosio-Arditi, BBB Italia, Innobiz, Artemide, 3M and Danese Milano.

His major design inspiration comes from street anthropology, transculturation and the world of arts. He mainly operate in the fields of furniture, lighting and wellbeing. They provide services of product design, art direction and lighting design and accompany his clients from concept to production.

Michele De Lucchi was born in 1951 in Ferrara and graduated in architecture in Florence. He has designed lamps and furniture for the most known Italian and European companies, as Artemide, Olivetti, Alias, Unifor, Hermès, Alessi.

De Lucchi designed and restored buildings for big national and multinational company worldwide, numerous art and design exhibitions, he planned buildings for museums as well as many architectural projects for private and public client.

His professional work has always gone side-by-side with a personal exploration of design, technology and crafts.