Grampo Lamp by Bruno De Lazzari is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Golden A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
GoldLighting· 2024
Grampo Lamp
Client: Atelier Bruno De Lazzari
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About Grampo Lamp
The Grampo Lamp makes use of brazilian wood fibers' natural flexibility, enabling it to bend, clip, or detach the light spot, converting it into a battery-powered flashlight that recharges while clipped in the stand. This design showcases the material's inherent characteristics and a commitment to sustainable sourcing. This project combines traditional woodworking with advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing. Grampo Lamp is inspired by the rich tradition of Brazilian wood design, yet it integrates functionalities that are only available in contemporary times.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Grampo Lamp is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Grampo Lamp is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Grampo Lamp creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Custom Wood Furniture and Lighting Design
We blend traditional Brazilian woodworking with innovative technology to create custom furniture and lighting. As an award-winning atelier in Porto Alegre, we transform sustainably sourced wood into functional art pieces that honor craftsmanship while embracing modern design.
Commission DesignInterviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of Brazilian wood fibers' natural flexibility in the Grampo Lamp creates a unique dual-functionality - could you elaborate on how this marriage of traditional materials and contemporary technology evolved during your design process?
The integration of Brazilian wood fibers in the Grampo Lamp is grounded in an appreciation of both tradition and innovation. Brazilian wood has an inherent flexibility and strength, and working with it allowed me to explore how its natural properties could be enhanced through modern technologies. This union between materiality and technology grew organically, starting from a desire to showcase wood's adaptability. I wanted to highlight its versatility, not just as a static material but as something capable of interaction and transformation. This balance of traditional woodworking and contemporary techniques, like 3D printing for parts, came naturally, resulting in a product that embodies both Brazilian heritage and forward-thinking design.
The Grampo Lamp's ability to transform from a fixed lighting fixture into a portable, rechargeable flashlight is particularly intriguing - what inspired you to incorporate this versatile functionality, and how does it reflect your vision of modern lighting design?
The idea of transforming the Grampo Lamp from a stationary fixture to a portable flashlight stemmed from a desire to create a light source that could adapt to the user's changing needs. I imagined a piece that wouldn’t just exist in one place but could accompany its owner, offering both function and form. Modern lighting should meet us where we are, physically and conceptually. This adaptability reflects my vision of lighting that is as dynamic as life itself. By making it portable and rechargeable, the lamp becomes not just a source of light but a companion, a functional piece that aligns with contemporary, mobile lifestyles.
As a designer working with sustainably sourced Brazilian tropical wood, how does the Grampo Lamp's design celebrate and showcase the inherent properties of this material while addressing contemporary environmental concerns?
Using sustainably sourced Brazilian wood was fundamental to the Grampo Lamp. I wanted the design to celebrate the material's origins and beauty while respecting the ecosystem it comes from. The lamp’s form and functionality accentuate the wood's natural flexibility and warmth. By embracing its texture and color, the design pays homage to Brazilian wood. At the same time, the sustainable sourcing underscores a commitment to preserving these forests. The Grampo Lamp is both an aesthetic and ethical statement, showing how traditional materials can be used responsibly in a way that harmonizes with modern environmental concerns.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Grampo Lamp, made from sustainably managed Brazilian tropical wood, showcases a unique, flexible design. Its column, with a vertical slit, allows for adjustable positioning of the light spot. This innovation, coupled with a wireless energy transmission system using stainless steel blades, offers versatility and doubles as an emergency light. The touch-sensitive control with three intensity levels, smooth lines, and artisanal craftsmanship highlight its functional elegance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Height: 1700mm
Lenght: 350mm
Weight: 10kg - Tags
- wood, flexibility, removable, charging
- Production Technology
- All wood is solid, machined, and hand-finished. The top part was made with grooves for the electrical connection, slightly offset to prevent short-circuiting. The wood spot houses all electrical components, fitted inside a 3D printed case, allowing the entire functional part to be removed for maintenance. Connections to the wires from the previous part are made with laser-cut stainless steel 'flaps' that are insulated from each other, sending energy to the battery. The base houses the wiring that is connected to a USB-C port for charging.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part of designing and executing the lamp was to harmonize the wood's flexibility with the internal wire connection that allows the lamp to charge when fitted, and also to fit the electronic components inside the removable spot.
- Research
- The project started from a need to illuminate one of my wall pieces in an exposition; I needed an adjustable light for that. I made 5 pieces for the expo, very simple and minimalist, with wires connected permanently to the spot, and a steel column, but the flexible wood concept was already there at the top. I thought I could expand the idea by making the spot wireless, and felt that the overall aspects of the piece could be sleeker and more elegant, inspired a bit by modern-era Brazilian designers.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the flexibility of sustainably sourced Brazilian tropical wood, the Grampo Lamp marries natural beauty with innovative design. It reflects a commitment to environmental responsibility and a fascination with wood's natural properties. This project combines traditional woodworking with advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing, to create a versatile, aesthetically pleasing lamp that pays homage to national identity while pushing the boundaries of sustainable design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2023 and finished in December 2024. The design and prototyping were all carried out in my shop in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- Operation Flow
- The lamp can be adjusted slightly in height and angled to change direction. There is a touch-sensitive button on top of the spot to turn on and dim the light. This spot can be removed, serving as a wireless lantern. The battery is also useful during a blackout, or to allow the whole stand to be moved where there is no nearby energy connection, such as outdoors.
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