Mangiarotti Collection
In 2024, Karakter is launching the Mangiarotti Collection of lights, including four in mouth-blown glass – Sfera, Accelsa, Saffo and Lari - honouring the great designer and giving his ethos credit. With mouth-blown glass lamps Mangiarotti did something that no one else had done and could do, and this we want to honor at Karakter.
Mangiarotti always looked for the sense of the material; with mouth-blown glass its transparency and translucency, and in a second typology, the more technical, modern lamps that Mangiarotti developed; The Alola floor lamp from 1967, Plexi suspended lights from 1962 and Aida lamp from 1988. The Mangiarotti Collection represents the lighting designs of the architect designer in the round, showing his unique approach to shape and scale as well as technical expertise. Each with their own distinctive character but bound by certain qualities, emotional and physical along with rational and functional.
An avowed proponent of anonymous design, Angelo Mangiarotti believed in making objects that “last longer than us”, to that end espousing “simple principles, elementary concepts and primary materials”. The fundamental starting point of any object was its usefulness, he said, but there were many more strands at play than mere function. The materiality, the shape, and above all the process, a conceptual way of thinking that applied to any or all projects irrespective of size or purpose.
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An avowed proponent of anonymous design, Angelo Mangiarotti believed in making objects that “last longer than us”, to that end espousing “simple principles, elementary concepts and primary materials”. The fundamental starting point of any object was its usefulness, he said, but there were many more strands at play than mere function. The materiality, the shape, and above all the process, a conceptual way of thinking that applied to any or all projects irrespective of size or purpose.
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