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FONTANAARTE IN MILAN 2015 PART 2 May 2015

The presence of FontanaArte at Euroluce at Milan Design Week 2015, featured a prestigious lighting collection, designed to a high technical and aesthetic level that resulted from working in collaboration with designers of international renown. The 2015 collection perfectly illustrates the FontanaArte philosophy: the aspiration to create technologically advanced objects that are beautiful and functional, and are centred on users and how they coexist with lighting.

IO WALL LAMP
Design by: Claesson Koivisto Rune

Shaped like a small curved lunar disc, IO is a wall lamp designed for LED light sources. Thanks to its dual-axis rotation frame, it has the distinguishing feature of rotating on both longitudinal and transverse axes for total light management. IO is easy to handle and adjustable, thanks to its size. The up/down movement on the external diffuser widens and narrows the ray of light. Designed to provide light that is as personal and adjustable as possible, this lamp is ideal at the bedside but its versatility also makes it an excellent solution for illuminating walls in an office or corridors in a hotel. The diffuser is painted in four matte-finish colours: graphite grey, red, white and blue, while the inside is white.

KINX TABLE LAMP
Design by: Karim Rashid

The new KINX is a task light that is the almost symbiotic union of design and practicality. The head is a loop of lumens with dimmable LEDs. Easy to handle and adjust into the position desired, it is an object thought up to bring cheer and lightness, to increase our attention level and add a touch of beauty to a work table. The light beam is electronically managed - on/off dim with blue optical actuator and signal point. The clear moulded diffuser increases the user’s visual comfort. The base of the lamp can be used to hold small objects and has an in-built USB port for recharging electronic devices. Available in opaque black, white and pink.

VOLEE TASK LIGHT
Design by: Odo Fioravanti

Volée is the latest and most contemporary example of the table lamp after the icon Naska, which dates back to the dawn of the company in 1931 and Three Sixty designed by Foster+Partners in 2005. Volée switches on with an almost tennis-style gesture: a simple wave of the hand under the head of this lamp activates an electronic device that switches the light on or off without any contact, while a touch sensor over the head allows the flow of light to be regulated to three different levels of intensity. A new-gen LED board generates a soft adjustable light that spreads through our hands and onto the work surface, ensuring great visual comfort. A Time Out system automatically switches the lamp off after it has been on for 8 hours. The tension for the hidden-spring balancing mechanisms is provided by steel wires coated in a coloured polymer that gives this lamp sophisticated furnishing accessory style. 

Alternating rationality and form, cylinders and spherical sections carved out by flat surfaces and soft curves are characteristics that make this lamp suitable for any setting, with all the understatement and practicality typical of work tools while adding a pleasing little decorative accent. The lamp has extruded aluminum structural rods, joints in die-cast aluminum and mechanical wires in steel with coloured coating. It comes with a base, table or wall attachment, all painted the same color as the body of the lamp. Available in four different finishes with matt paint in white, graphite grey, silk grey and fluo yellow.

YUMI FLOOR LAMP
Design by: Shigeru Ban

Two new colours: white and red fluo, and a new material, aluminium, are the novelties from YUMI, the stunning floor lamp designed by Shigeru Ban in 2012 and winner of numerous awards, including the iF Gold Design Award 2014. YUMI is delicacy and strength together: an essential design with a sturdy and light structure (in aluminium for the coated versions, in carbon fibre for the original black version). The lamp spreads a warm glow concentrated downwards, ideal for creating an intimate atmosphere. It characterizes different environments with its decided and discreet personality. It has 170 LEDs lodged in its structure, which guarantees minimum bulk and enhances the continuity of the design.

BLOM TABLE LAMP IN NEW COLOURS
Design by: Andreas Engesvik  

Three new colours for Blom were released. In addition to ruby red, silk grey, pale green and yellow, it is now available in mezcal green, black and white. Of minimal size, Blom is a fun, lightweight light which can be handled, moved around and adapted to the user's requirements. The amount of light may be adjusted with two petals, which wrap gently around the diffuser and rotate around its base, screening the light flow as required: the maximum amount of light is given off when the petals are aligned.

GLOBO DI LUCE PENDANT IN NEW COPPER FINISH
Design by: Roberto Menghi

The new metallic copper finish adds another look to the GLOBO DI LUCE collection. Made from blown glass, the chrome and metallic copper finishes enhance the spherical lampshades of this collection, which is available in three different sized suspension versions and as a table version.

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