Alessandro Zambelli presented to Maison et Objet 2014 the new family of lamps AFILLIA for .exnovo: in the collection, the materials of the South Tyrolean tradition come together to innovative technology of professional 3D printing in a summary new and harmonious.
Undress of the superfluous and run the risk of remaining in contact with the essential, which is sometimes visible to the eyes. This feature of new collection of lamps designed by Alessandro Zambelli for .exnovo. A name borrowed from botanical science - Afillia, a plant without leaves - to reveal its nature, made of essentiality and empty spaces, of air and light.
A family of accessories for lighting - 3 free-standing, 3 suspended - in which a support in Swiss pine, a precious wood from the South Tyrolean mountains, handcrafted according to ancient local traditions, Is combined with a diffuser polyamide (more simply, nylon fiber) sintered through professional 3D printing.
This is how furnishing accessories are born - unique pieces or limited series of objects - literally printed through this cutting-edge technology: the work of the machines is integrated into harmonically to the skill of master craftsmen who, by the polymer block shapeless, bring to light the material formed and complete the process manually, leaving a personal mark on each creation.
At the center of the object, a light diffuser that envelops and decorate the space: subtle textures like lace, transparency in their geometric shape in two-dimensional thin swirls origami. The light, free-floating in space and create shadows changing, Focuses unexpectedly in gold spherical, compact and luminescent: fluid energy between form and matter, light and air.
.exnovo - brand of HSL, a Trentino company that was the first to bring digital and additive manufacturing technologies to Italy, with which it has been operating for 25 years - is specializing in the production of design objects made by professional printing 3D.
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