Blithe spirit

In 1948, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini invented the Fazzoletto vase, an object destined to become an archetype. Today, 75 years later, this invention finds new functionality. Under the artistic direction of Studio Marco Piva, Fazzoletto - which last year was reinvented as a table lamp: Fazzoletto Fantasmino - now becomes a pendant lamp. Hence the name,

Fazzoletto Volante. An object that ironically evokes the floating of a spirit (presumably a blithe one, as in Noël Coward’s comedy) and gives this historical design a new functionality. The lamp can be installed individually or in multiple compositions and is equipped with a mechanism that allows the height to be adjusted to create ever-changing atmospheres.

“I wanted to give new life to an iconic and always contemporary object by transforming it into an ethereal, light element that finds a further identity in the combination of glass and light,” explains Marco Piva. The result is an elementary and brilliant invention. Which stems from the ability to see things from ever new perspectives.