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Nemo Lighting
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2022/10/25
Nemo highlights future and past
In a stripped-down combination of innovation and Italian design heritage, Nemo Lighting brings together masters such as Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier with future pioneers of lighting design.
Nemo Lighting was founded in 1993, but despite its relatively young age it has already been recognised for its iconic designs. At the time, founder Franco Cassina's goal was a lighting brand to complement the Cassina furniture range, but today Nemo Lighting has broken new ground as an independent brand with new owners.
With roots in Italian design, they offer modern design that is at the forefront of innovative solutions. Nemo also has strong ties to design history, seamlessly linking the past with the future. Their famous Masters Collection contains a unique selection of lamps from the most prominent and progressive designers and architects of the 20th century, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Vico Magistretti. At the same time, it creates future design icons in collaboration with designers such as Mario Bellini, Jean Nouvel, Andrea Branzi, Bernhard Osann and Arihiro Miyake. This year's new products from Nemo Lighting combine the best design talent of the past and the future.
Born in 1903 in Paris, Charlotte Perriand's breakthrough came at the age of 24 when she designed the Bar Under the Roof installation for the Salon d'Automne, which led to her meeting Le Corbusier. Together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, they created a series of groundbreaking works. Perriand has also been responsible for several masterpieces on her own and is considered one of our greatest modernist designers and has paved the way for a number of careers among female designers.
Nemo Lighting's collection includes her Applique Cylindrique, a series of adjustable lamps with rotating shades in bright colours. The flexibility of the lampshades allows the light to be directed in different directions depending on how the shade is turned, making the lamp work just as well as a reading lamp as it does for a more diffuse downward mood light or as a spot light.
"In 1940, I designed an adjustable and inexpensive lamp made from a long black tube in the shape of an inverted L to carry the electric cable to the bulb," Perriand is reported to have said of another of his popular design lamps. Potence Pivotante was designed in 1940 and is also part of Nemo Lighting's autumn collection. It epitomises her sense of minimalism, making it as relevant today as it was then.
Nemo Lighting's collection also includes Le Corbusier's design Projectuer 165 - a mini version of his well-known Projectuer 365 that can be used outdoors. A minimalist aluminium luminaire that turns the visible screws and functionality of the lamp into a stylistic expression.
Future icons include the designs of Bernhard Osann. Nemo Lighting includes his Fox Collection, a series of lamps whose steel structure in matte black, delicately curves through the air.
Nemo Lighting has received a number of Compasso d'Oro awards. These include the lamps TRU by Roberto Paoli, Giò by Angeletti Ruzza and Projecteur by Le Corbusier. In its stripped-down design solutions, Nemo Lighting represents the very idea of timeless design.
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