Lightopia Talk. Richard Sapper @ Vitra Design Museum. Reprise.

Aside from the ability to accurately focus light, Richard Sapper had a further motivation in designing his Tizio lamp:

“Another problem was that I am a very disorganised person. On my desk there is no space to place a lamp, or at best one is forced to place it on the very edge, the rest of the table being covered with things that I probably don’t need, but which I can only store on my desk. In such a situation one needs a lamp with a long boom arm. To effortlessly move such a lamp one has the mechanical problem of finding a structural system, a mechanism, that allows a small diffuser to be moved without any resistance. There are two possible systems: a boom with a spring or one with counterweight. For me it was clear that an arm with a counterweight was the better option, the more natural.” Richard Sapper “Der Design-Prozeß” in Uta Brandes “Richard Sapper. Werkzeuge für das Leben” Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 1993

A further piece of evidence to support the truly excellent research paper by Prof. Kathleen D. Vohs: “Physical Order Produces Healthy Choices, Generosity, and Conventionality, Whereas Disorder Produces Creativity”

Lightopia Talk. Richard Sapper – Lifetime Oeuvre takes place at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein on Thursday January 23rd at 6pm.

As before if you can make it, do.