Ricotta Floor Lamp
Ricotta celebrates the skill of the Rakumba wire fabricators.
“With a spot welder and collection of old jigs he could whip up a beautiful wire frame in next to no time – but, frames are the under carriage of a lamp shade and rarely seen. I suggested we design a shade that showed-off his talent for making by expressing the wire on the outside. He thought I was joking but I could tell he liked the idea. When the first prototype was finished the craftswomen exclaimed – ‘Ah Simona, it reminds me of the basket for making ricotta’ – and presto, we had our name.” Simone LeAmon
CLICK TO BUY RICOTTARicotta / 2011 / Rakumba Design Collaboration / Steel, aluminium and cotton polyester / Lamp: E27 / O 64 X H 180cm / Photo Andrew Curtis
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