Adamas Floor Lamp by Francesca Schiavello

Adamas Floor Lamp by Francesca Schiavello is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.

SilverLighting· 2021

Adamas Floor Lamp

by Francesca Schiavello

Client: Francesca Schiavello

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category

31,011

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #107967

View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Adamas Floor Lamp

Adamas is a floor lamp designed for home use. The lamp combines a slender metal structure with a paper lampshade. The lampshade is folded by hand from FSC parchment paper using the origami technique, and it can be removed and refitted by the user. The structure is made of square section iron tubes fixed to a circular iron base with a waxed surface. A brass cone acts as the lamp holder and joins the two parts. The parchment paper makes the light soft and warm, and the light is directed towards the ceiling. An LED E27 bulb is used.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Adamas Floor Lamp is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Adamas Floor Lamp is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Adamas Floor Lamp is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Left and Right

Where to Get It

Bespoke Origami Lighting Design Services

We create exceptional handcrafted lighting that merges Italian design elegance with Japanese origami artistry. Our commissioned lamp projects transform spaces through carefully considered geometry, premium materials, and warm ambient light. Each piece is meticulously handfolded and crafted to your specifications.

Request Quote

View in the Design Shop

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Adamas lamp has a dual materiality: a metal pedestal and a paper lampshade.
The iron pedestal wants to give a careful balance and harmonious geometry in dialogue with the delicate paper lampshade, folded according to the origami technique. It provides as a connecting point a brass cone, which takes up the geometry of the lampshade and gives light to the structure. The generated light is deliberately soft and warm, thanks to the materiality of the parchment paper.
Dimensions & Packaging: 36 x 25 x 146,5 cm
Structure in iron and brass / Lampshade made out of paper and folded by hand / Lightbulb must be LED bulb e27
Tags: lighting, floor lamp, origami, paper, handmade
Production Technology: The triangle of the structure has been made with square section tubular iron elements, dry fitted, fixed with screws to a circular base in rough iron with waxed surface. The structure is dry-fastened to the brass lamp holder, on which the paper lampshade rests with perfect interlocking.
The lampshade is folded by hand with a FSC parchment paper, then it is fixed to the lamp holder.
Design Challenge: This prototype lamp was a great challenge for me.
It took me a few months to test different kind of papers, in order to chose the best one for my shape. It was essential that the paper lampshade could be removed and inserted at the user's convenience.
The study of the proportions and the design of the pedestal took me a long time, with 2 other prototypes behind in wood.
As I aspired to a more light and thin structure yet elegant, I asked support to a talented blacksmith to figure out which could possibly be the best assembly structure.
Research: I approached the world of lighting by initially studying paper and its behavior with light through paper folding techniques.
What plays an important role is the triangle tessellation, the smallest polygon one can generate. From the lampshade tessellation, the triangle gains relevance also in the metal structure.
It was essential that it could appear as light and harmonious as possible, emphasizing the complex geometry of origami.
Inspiration: The study of this lamp starts with my desire to realize a light for my apartment.
I began to study the behavior of paper through the technique of origami, looking for a shape that could best adapt to a floor lamp with light diffusion towards the ceiling. After a short time my research evolved looking for a base that could be as light and simple as possible, merging with the geometry of the paper.
Thus a dialogue was created between opposite materials: paper as lightness and fragility, metal as stability and resistance
Project Duration: This floor lamp comes from a two-year project. It started in 2018 in Switzerland and ended in Milan, 2020
Operation Flow: This floor lamp tries to combine elegance and lightness.
A thin iron and brass structure supports a delicate paper lampshade.
The lampshade is born under origami technique and it is carefully handmade with a FSC paper.
It is for use with a LED e27 bulb only. An energy-saving lightbulb is healthier for you and the environment.
The colored paper makes the light warmer and comfortable.
Team Members: Francesca Schiavello
Image Credits: Photographer/Creator: Francesca Schiavello