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Foscarini

A free spirit in lighting design, Foscarini embodies why Italy has become the world’s leading design nation. Highly inventive but with its roots firmly based in traditional craft and artisanal skills, Foscarini balances the human experience and hand-made techniques with hi-tech manufacturing. Consistently embracing a contemporary vision for lighting design where experimentation is given free-reign and products are allowed to develop organically, the brand has been able to stimulate the minds and change the tastes of its customers for over 40 years.

Space have represented the brand for more than 15 years and have developed long standing relationships with the brand and its pool of designers. During this time a number of designs have become dear to the hearts of many Australians, particularly the arcing shape of Twiggy by Marc Sadler, but also the pure forms of Rodolfo Dordoni’s Buds collection and Lucidi Pevere’s concrete pendant lamps Aplomb.

The Foscarini Story

Lighting has been a major part of the glass making tradition on the Venetian island of Murano for hundreds of years - well before electric light was invented. It was only natural that when Foscarini was founded in 1981 that the initial focus for the brand should be on light fittings made by artisans in glass but when Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro Vecchiato joined Foscarini as designers in 1988 the brand’s direction shifted in line with the radical design movements of the 80’s and this ultimately led to a move to mainland Venice and a far broader approach to lighting design. With a desire to embrace all types of materials and manufacturing techniques Foscarini under the leadership of Urbinati and Vecchiato took pride in being ‘a company without a factory’ arguing this allowed them to be totally free of production constraints and open to whatever new ideas were presented by the brand’s growing roster of designers.

It was the late, great, Milanese designer Rodolfo Dordoni who first brought success to  Foscarini with his Lumiere table light in 1990 but other famous names like Tom Dixon, Ferruccio Laviani, Patricia Urquiola, Nendo, and Lucidi Pevere were soon to follow.

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Buds

Rodolfo Dordoni’s beautiful collection of table and pendant lights use two elemental forms in blown glass to create a striking form resembling an abstract flower bud. The table lamp versions feature a crystal clear acrylic cylindrical base and double layer coloured shade in hand blown glass. Appearing to float above the table surface, the lamp is available in three different shapes, each in its own particular colour.

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Gregg

A family of hand-blown glass pendant table and floor lamps by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba, deliver a pleasing asymmetry with an organic, poetic quality. The etched white glass produces a soft natural light while the shape emphasises the design’s handmade qualities resembling a water-worn pebble.


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Lumiere

The first major success for Foscarini, was designed by Rodolfo Dordoni in 1990 and has been a best seller ever since. Its delicate double layer glass shade sits on top of a curving, three-pronged base in cast aluminium. Proportionally perfect, the lamp is still available in its original form but has also undergone constant design developments with variations being released in new colours and textures, to suit an increasingly diverse range of interiors.

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Twiggy

Created by Austrian born designer Marc Sadler in 2006, was another instant success for Foscarini. Its clever use of fishing rod technology and form delivers a unique light that project its fine fibreglass shade into the room via a giant curving arc of fibre reinforced resin. Lightweight and flexible, it can be pivoted into new positions and always feels dynamic and exciting. 2021 saw a new version of Twiggy with a shade made from timber veneer.


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Nile

The Foscarini Nile light design by Rodolfo Dordoni embodies the perfect balance of two opposites, the consistency of marble and the delicacy of glass, the contrast of mineral coolness and handmade warmth, industry, and craftsmanship. The arrangement of the two volumes seems to defy the law of gravity. The base and the diffuser, at different angles, remain in place thanks to an invisible game of weights, positions and joints for a unified dynamic effect.

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Aplomb

Specially formulated concrete plays the starring role in the Aplomb Lamp family, a model that combines texture and sophistication and casts a concentrated beam of downlight.
Visible concrete is part of the expressive language of modern architecture and, with Aplomb, Foscarini introduces a model that uses this material with a spirit and technology that is entirely original.


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Technology meets craftsmanship

Foscarini’s concept of working with both traditional workshops and high-tech industrial manufacturers allows the brand to excel at producing a diverse range of lighting regardless of its material. In keeping with their Murano origins Foscarini is justifiably famous for their beautifully precise mouth blown glass lighting designs but also developed ground-breaking designs using fibreglass, carbon fiber and Kevlar. Designs like the Mite and Tite lamps by Marc Sadler won Foscarini the coveted Compasso d’Oro Award in 2001 and these hi-tech materials have been behind some of the brand’s biggest commercial successes like Sadler’s Twiggy Lamp.

Foscarini was one of the first Italian lighting companies to obtain UNI EN ISO 9001 certification, which guarantees the quality of the production process. To reduce its environmental impact Foscarini added UNI EN ISO 14001: 2004 certification in 2012.

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