Planet Mini lights are portable and can be used to create magical scenes.
The history of the Italian furniture manufacturer Kartell began in the early 50s with the production of car parts made of plastic. Later, the Italian manufacturer moved on to produce laboratory equipment before expanding its portfolio with numerous furnishings and eventually developed from the 1970s into one of the most important producers of designer furniture and home accessories in Europe. Working in close cooperation with renowned international designers Kartell are constantly realising new, surprising, practical objects, including lighting objects. Kartell lighting such as the Bourgie lamp by Ferruccio Laviani are among the famous classics of the company, and, and as with much of the company's lighting portfolio, impress through the interplay of transparency, colour and lightness; combinations which allow the Kartell table, wall and pendant lights to express the infinite possibilities of plastic in ever new and unique ways.
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Table lamp Teresa
Planet pendant light
Battery
Kabuki Kartell
Cindy
Planet
Mini Geen-A battery lighting
Light Air from Kartell
...Ideally, lighting design should be taken into account during construction so that there are enough outlets and power connections in the right places... However, the lighting concept in the living area can also be easily improved retrospectively without requiring a great deal of technical expertise...
..."Gegen Ende meiner Silberschmied-Ausbildung hatte ich begonnen, mich mit Lichtproblemen zu befassen", recalled the Swiss architect, designer and artist Max Bill in 1979, 'towards the end of my silversmith training I started to concern myself with problems of lighting', continuing, 'when I arrived at Bauhaus in the spring of 1927 I was impressed by the variety of Lichtträgern [light bearers] that alternated throughout the building according to functional needs'... 1 The Lichtträger in question is and was the so-called ME 94 by Marianne Brandt: a lamp designed and developed by Brandt at Bauhaus Dessau in the 1920s, employed in various contexts at Bauhaus Dessau in the 1920s and which in the 2020s served as the starting point for the participants of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau's Bauhaus Lab to deliberate on, and respond to — as the starting point for a 'chain of considerations' on — subjects relating to electric lighting both historic contemporary and more contemporary contemporary...
...smow Blog: Certainly, and its something we very much enjoy about the project; however their main business is enamel pots and pans, how did they react when two designers arrived from Budapest and said 'we want to make furniture and lighting'?...
...Wandering aimlessly through the digital Marcel Breuer Archive one afternoon, we stumbled across a letter dated July 25th 1950 from Peter M Fraser, one of Breuer's employees, to the Eames Office, enquiring about a lighting design by Charles and Ray that Breuer was interested in using in one of his architectural projects, and requesting... "a lighting design by Charles and Ray"?...
...The German designer and silversmith Christian Dell is arguably best known for the numerous lighting designs he realised during the 1920s and 1930s... 1 In 1922 Christian Dell retuned to Weimar as Werkmeister in the metal workshop at Bauhaus, where along with the Formmeister László Moholy-Nagy and students such as, for example, Marianne Brandt, Hin Bredendieck, Wilhelm Wagenfeld or Carl Jacob Jucker, he played a key role in developing the Bauhaus understanding of and approach to product and lighting design...
