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Foscarini Spazio Soho dazzles at NYCxDESIGN 2024 with a vibrant display of paper flowers featuring the new Fleur portable lamp, guiding visitors through the latest lighting designs by Rodolfo Dordoni, Andrea Anastasio, and Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba.

The Showroom Foscarini Spazio Soho, in the heart of Soho, will be the hub of Foscarini’s presence at this year’s NYCxDESIGN, showcasing visitors a selection of Foscarini’s recent product introductions by designers Andrea Anastasio, Rodolfo Dordoni, and Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba.

Highlights include the Fleur and Chapeaux table lamps by Rodolfo Dordoni. Chapeaux features a minimalist design with a Pyrex support and three interchangeable hats in metal, glass, and bone china, each creating a unique lighting ambiance. The Fleur lamp, wireless and elegantly proportioned, is an object with a dual function: the more natural purpose of lighting, and the unexpected role of containing water and a fresh flower, adding a touch of refinement to any space.

Visitors can also explore the new HOBA collection by Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba, showcasing the timeless beauty of hand-blown glass and anti-geometry design. Completing the exhibition is the FREGIO suspension and wall lamp designed by Andrea Anastasio and realized in collaboration with the historical Gatti workshop in Faenza. Fregio is a ceramic floral bas–relief that combines a contemporary approach with age–old artisanal know–how. a blend of contemporary and artisanal craftsmanship inspired by classical motifs.

Foscarini Spazio Soho invites design enthusiasts, industry professionals, and the public to celebrate 40 years of transformative lighting design, highlighted in the new book “Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023” narrating the brand’s journey. A monograph, edited by Alberto Bassi and Ali Filippini and published by Corraini, with six thematic itineraries, each including critical analysis and a selection of lamps, with a recap of the entire product range.

 

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There’s a new skyscraper in town: the light. For NYCxDESIGN Festival 2022 Foscarini pays homage to the Big Apple and its unmistakable skyline with the photography project “The City of Light”.

Once again Foscarini chooses the art of photography to narrate its evolution and its products. During Design Week 2022 in New York Foscarini presents “The City of Light”, an original photography project by Gianluca Vassallo and Francesco Mannironi where the protagonist is UpTown, the sculptural floor lamp by Ferruccio Laviani that pays homage – starting with the name – to the most inimitable skyline in the world: that of Manhattan.

A lamp-sculpture, a skyscraper of light with a presence of great impact, Uptown is a composition of three volumes made with plates of tempered, coloured and screen-printed glass, in the primary colours yellow, red and blue, superimposed to generate intense chromatic effects.
An illustration of Foscarini’s experimental approach, Uptown has been interpreted in a totally off-scale version, inserted at some of the most recognizable locations in the city: Greenpoint, Wall Street, Broadway, Midtown….

The photographs reveal the particular identity of Uptown, based on transparency, a red thread that has guided every choice in the design development, like the 45° ground edges that make the meeting of the glass plates imperceptible. That which goes unseen, and seems to be quite absent, has been hidden intentionally: what remains is an impression of simplicity, for an immediate interpretation of an object of great complexity. Striking even when not in use, Uptown becomes an absolute protagonist of spaces when it is turned on. The LED light source with dimmer is concealed in the base: when the lamp is on, the plates are filled with colour, and the light is projected upward. Uptown is a lamp of vivid personality, a case of extraordinary charisma that defines its surroundings with its forceful presence.

On display at the brand’s New York flagship showroom, Foscarini narrates this human-centric vision by offering a setting to experience the photographic works with accompanying lighting designs.

Discover more about VITE project

VITE represents a change of vision and a shifted perspective for the lighting brand Foscarini – an evolution in the way the company references and visualizes its products. VITE reflects a desire to make people the central focus of the narrative about design. The project discusses light, not from the perspective of the lamp, who designed, developed, and produced it, but from the perspective of those who live with it inside their own spaces, in their homes.

On display at the brand’s New York flagship showroom, Foscarini narrates this human-centric vision by offering a setting to experience the photographic works with accompanying lighting designs.
Products on display include Lumiere by Rodolfo Dordoni, Gregg by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba, MITE Anniversario and Twiggy by Marc Sandler, Plena by Eugenio Gargioni and Guillaume Albouy, Sun – Light of Love by Tord Boontje, Caboche by Patricia Urquiola and Eliana Gerotto, Aplomb by Lucidi Pevere and Spokes by Garcia Cumini.

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Visitors are taken through the various scenes, as they are transported inside real homes in Copenhagen, New York, Naples, Shanghai and Venice by Gianluca Vassallo (artist, photographer and videographer) and Flavio Soriga (writer). The central focus of the images is not the products but the human beings, leaving viewers to gaze into and roam around the private spaces of the individuals. Not the seemingly unreachable and highly-stylized homes of typical interior shoots, VITE depicts homes that are lived-in in their everyday settings.
The VITE exhibition highlights Foscarini’s shift in viewpoint towards showcasing their lights in a more intimate, private dimension, in spaces where lamps are inserted in a very natural way as part of the experience of real people in their own homes.

“Every time the door opened into one of the lives I photographed in recent months, I pursued a Sunday some forty years ago, that I guard within me. I looked for the wonder of that particular light that I experienced at the age of six, in a brand new house, with the smell of the fresh paint welcoming us and the noise coming from the floor above us. That was simply the light I imagined shone on the life of the people who lived up there.”

GIANLUCA VASSALLO
/ AUTHOR

The VITE project will be on display from now until May 2022 at the Foscarini Spazio Soho Showroom, the brands New York flagship showroom.
You can also visit the Exhibition from anywhere in the world, 24/7 through our special Virtual Tour.
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