Artist Jacopo Foggini has collaborated with Italian manufacturer Edra over the past few years to create several chair designs that push the limits of manipulating polycarbonate - the results create profoundly engaging new aesthetics that blur industrial design and fine art. We are absolutely smitten with his recent, fabulously surreal Ines floor lamp design. As Foggini remarked in a recent interview, it was the first time that he had designed a lamp for a company and Edra was the artist's logical choice of partner for the collaboration. As Foggini explained, "With Edra, I always felt total freedom to create without limits or boundaries. Edra is one of the few companies able to realize an industrial product with such high craftsmanship to make it somewhat unique."
Foggini wanted to create a lamp that "could dialogue with those beautiful sofas that characterize its production--an important lamp, with the dynamics and proportions of an inverted chandelier. I wanted it to be read as a natural element, a stem that branches out like a tree, but also in some polymorphic way as the sinuous body of a woman with long legs, like my former girlfriend Ines, to whom it is dedicated."
Foggini remarks that he was inspired by the work of artists, Giacometti and Salvador Dali, as well as filmmaker Tim Burton. Rather than infusing color into the polycarbonate material as the artist had done previously with his range of chairs for Edra - Ella, Gilda B. Alice, Gina - Foggini describes that the lamp's luxurious finish was applied to create the effect of "gold dripped as wax, in an irregular manner."
Switch Modern is delighted to present the entire range of Jacopo Foggini's work for Edra online as well as highlighting several examples of his work in our Atlanta showroom. For more information on Jacopo Foggini or Edra, please contact us at 404-605-0196 or info@switchmodern.com.
