Platinum Lighting Products and Fixtures Design · 2025
Embrasse Moi Lamp Sculpture Lamp
- A' Design Award 2025 Platinum Winner in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Giuseppe Tortato Architetti
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,097,332
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About Embrasse Moi Lamp Sculpture Lamp
Halfway between art and design, Embrasse Moi is the majestic light sculpture whose name recalls the play on words between the English brass and the lamp's curved, enveloping shape. The suspension lamp has been handcrafted: a large sculpture in burnished brass that recalls the DNA strand, the weave of which unfolds like a fil rouge throughout the space, giving every project an artistic accent that makes it unique.
Giuseppe Tortato's Embrasse Moi Lamp Sculpture Lamp exemplifies a contemporary approach to sculptural illumination that engages thoughtfully with the rich tradition of decorative lighting while proposing distinctly modern formal vocabularies. The work appears to emerge from sustained meditation on the relationship between line, light, and architectural space, employing advanced metalworking techniques and integrated LED technology to achieve a form that seems to defy material constraints, the rigid brass ribbon rendered visually weightless through its graceful helical configuration. The installation context proves integral to understanding the design's achievement, as Tortato has conceived the piece specifically to inhabit the vertical void of a grand classical stairwell, creating dialogue between the organic fluidity of the sculptural element and the measured geometries of its neoclassical surroundings. One observes how the continuous twisted form echoes without imitating the curvilinear flourishes of the traditional ironwork, establishing visual kinship while asserting unmistakably contemporary identity. The technical accomplishment extends beyond mere formal elegance to encompass sophisticated consideration of illumination quality, the embedded light source distributing warm radiance along the sculpture's length to create both functional downlighting and atmospheric ambient glow. The title itself suggests embrace, and indeed the form seems to reach outward and enfold the surrounding space, transforming utilitarian vertical circulation into an experience of aesthetic encounter. Viewers might contemplate how this work negotiates the perennial tension between tradition and innovation, achieving synthesis rather than opposition between classical grandeur and contemporary design sensibility.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Halfway between art and design, Embrasse Moi is the majestic light sculpture whose name recalls the play on words between the English brass and the lamp's curved, enveloping shape. The suspension lamp has been handcrafted: a large sculpture in burnished brass that recalls the DNA strand, the weave of which unfolds like a fil rouge throughout the space, giving every project an artistic accent that makes it unique.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Embrasse Moi sculpture lamp weighs 300 kg
- Tags
- Lamp, Sculpture, Architecture, Design, Craftsmanship
- Production Technology
- Designed with parametric software and handcrafted brass
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to create a continuous ribbon that ran vertically between all the floors. The need to contain weights and distribute loads as evenly as possible was the main focus of the constructive thinking behind this installation. Dimensions and thicknesses were selected to achieve the lowest possible weight per linear meter, while respecting the use of materials chosen by the Art Direction, which at the same time ensure a high standard of safety. For construction and transportation reasons, the structure will be built in sections, with the tighter spirals and twists worked on special sections of shorter length. The individual segments will then be joined at the ends with internal reinforcement plates secured by safety bolts on the outside with the same finish. The assembly involves the installation of some steel tensioners, which will be anchored to the brass frame at critical points to support the weight and maintain the shape
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2022 in Milan and ended in September 2022 in Milan. It is displayed in the reception and on the stairs of the building at Via Negri 4
- Operation Flow
- The sculpture lamp, Embrasse Moi, is a large sculpture in bronzed brass that evokes the DNA filament, whose texture unfolds like a red thread throughout the space, giving each project an artistic accent that makes it unique
- Research
- A new sculptural lamp that fits into a historic building like a single ribbon, with a vertical development across all floors. Its relative lightness has allowed for the Art Direction's desire for a suspension system that is not overly invasive, consisting of a number of thin, low-visual-impact steel fixing cables.
- Inspiration
- Embrasse Moi is a piece of art designed with parametric software and handcrafted, maintaining a unique and sinuous design. The inspiration comes from the spirals of DNA and the possibility, through craftsmanship, to bend a difficult material like bronze.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Carola Merello, Embrasse Moi, 2022.
Image #2: Photographer Carola Merello, Embrasse Moi, 2022.
Image #3: Photographer Carola Merello, Embrasse Moi, 2022.
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Image #5: Photographer Carola Merello, Embrasse Moi, 2022.