New Pamono Steccolino Table Lamp in Aluminum and Vegetable Tanned Leather by Oscar Maschera

Steccolino Table Lamp in Aluminum & Vegetable Tanned Leather by Oscar Maschera Dimensions: D 18 x W 28 x H 76 cm. Materials: Aluminum and vegetable leather. Stecco is a truly unique lamp. Its slender twiggy shape immediately brings to mind a species from the insect world. Some people, upon seeing the whittled structure of the prototypes, immediately thought of the stick bug, stecco in Italian, with its long, thin body that mimics the shape of the stem it sits on. Hence, its name, Stecco. This lamp is the evolution of an object with a painted wooden structure and a fluorescent bulb created to be a lighting element for the set of the “In Progress” exhibit at the Musée du Grand-Hornu, in Belgium, in 2010. The Stecco floor lamp and its “little brother” Steccolino, a table lamp, were created starting from an aluminium frame, entirely hand-covered in vegetable-tanned leather available in ten sophisticated colours. Both lamps use 12-volt LED lighting, which can be adjusted using a touch dimmer switch built into the frame. Unlike the stick-bug, an adept mime that blends in with its surroundings, Stecco, in both models, proudly stands out from its surroundings. It looms up in space, an elegant silhouette in any setting: a beacon that suffuses indirect lighting. Our work is research: we give our fantasy free rein when experimenting and manipulating an object in leather. The researcher proceeds and invents. Given a road, it goes all the way along it, back and forth, and then begins to visit its surroundings. It is the same for us. We explore the leather: creating corners, cutting edges, and joining the parts. Every object is an invention, because it is a stage in the research, and never the endpoint of the production. Like footprints in the sand, our objects represent a story made up of different chapters. Every element of this story, every collection, has its own independent life. Foglia Couture, Caballito Blanco, Miroirs et Tapis, Bombo, Stecco, Isole, Pouf!, Caballito Blanco#Blanco. Every name in this sequence is a step, a track, a memory. But what better expresses the idea of our project is the whole set of collections, the direction that they all take as one, like a slipstream along the coast. Inventing as a job is first and foremost a pleasure. Combining the materials, folding the lines, choosing the colours, modelling, and constructing. And above all, simplifying, letting the objects be free to invent a new space, observing how they come to modify what they are next to: a room, a place, the everyday routine. Imagination creates a horizon. The designs are sensed in an ideal world. The next step, the one that allows you to see the images composed in the objects, is the heart of our work. Experience concretizes what is initially imagined, and all our production represents this operation.