Press Release
Adamas Floor Lamp by Francesca Schiavello Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Francesca Schiavello for lighting products and fixtures design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Adamas Floor Lamp by Francesca Schiavello has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Adamas Floor Lamp
Adamas is a floor lamp designed for home use. The lamp combines a slender metal structure with a paper lampshade. The lampshade is folded by hand from FSC parchment paper using the origami technique, and it can be removed and refitted by the user. The structure is made of square section iron tubes fixed to a circular iron base with a waxed surface. A brass cone acts as the lamp holder and joins the two parts. The parchment paper makes the light soft and warm, and the light is directed towards the ceiling. An LED E27 bulb is used.
About Francesca Schiavello
Francesca is an Italian architect who has always been passionate about arts. In 2017 she graduates at Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio, Switzerland, and her diploma project is chosen among others for the temporary exhibition “Neues Salzburg - Zwischen Erinnerung und Zeitgenossenschaft”, at Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria. She has been working for international architecture practices between Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and is currently living and working in London, both as an architect and designer. In 2018 she has founded Frami atelier and since then works on commissioned and private lamps projects.
Award Record
Francesca Schiavello is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/lighting
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/107967
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/107967
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!107967
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/277289
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Adamas Floor Lamp
- Function
- Floor Lamp
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Gray, Rosy Brown, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Francesca Schiavello
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #107967
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer/Creator: Francesca Schiavello
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Adamas lamp has a dual materiality: a metal pedestal and a paper lampshade. The iron pedestal wants to give a careful balance and harmonious geometry in dialogue with the delicate paper lampshade, folded according to the origami technique. It provides as a connecting point a brass cone, which takes up the geometry of the lampshade and gives light to the structure. The generated light is deliberately soft and warm, thanks to the materiality of the parchment paper.
- Inspiration
- The study of this lamp starts with my desire to realize a light for my apartment. I began to study the behavior of paper through the technique of origami, looking for a shape that could best adapt to a floor lamp with light diffusion towards the ceiling. After a short time my research evolved looking for a base that could be as light and simple as possible, merging with the geometry of the paper. Thus a dialogue was created between opposite materials: paper as lightness and fragility, metal as stability and resistance
- Research
- I approached the world of lighting by initially studying paper and its behavior with light through paper folding techniques. What plays an important role is the triangle tessellation, the smallest polygon one can generate. From the lampshade tessellation, the triangle gains relevance also in the metal structure. It was essential that it could appear as light and harmonious as possible, emphasizing the complex geometry of origami.
- Challenge
- This prototype lamp was a great challenge for me. It took me a few months to test different kind of papers, in order to chose the best one for my shape. It was essential that the paper lampshade could be removed and inserted at the user's convenience. The study of the proportions and the design of the pedestal took me a long time, with 2 other prototypes behind in wood. As I aspired to a more light and thin structure yet elegant, I asked support to a talented blacksmith to figure out which could possibly be the best assembly structure.
- Realization and Technology
- The triangle of the structure has been made with square section tubular iron elements, dry fitted, fixed with screws to a circular base in rough iron with waxed surface. The structure is dry-fastened to the brass lamp holder, on which the paper lampshade rests with perfect interlocking. The lampshade is folded by hand with a FSC parchment paper, then it is fixed to the lamp holder.
- Operation and Interaction
- This floor lamp tries to combine elegance and lightness. A thin iron and brass structure supports a delicate paper lampshade. The lampshade is born under origami technique and it is carefully handmade with a FSC paper. It is for use with a LED e27 bulb only. An energy-saving lightbulb is healthier for you and the environment. The colored paper makes the light warmer and comfortable.
- Project Duration and Location
- This floor lamp comes from a two-year project. It started in 2018 in Switzerland and ended in Milan, 2020
- Specifications
- 36 x 25 x 146,5 cm Structure in iron and brass / Lampshade made out of paper and folded by hand / Lightbulb must be LED bulb e27
- Keywords
- lighting, floor lamp, origami, paper, handmade
