Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage by Patrizia Volpato Srl

Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage by Patrizia Volpato Srl is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award d'Argent in Design d'Éclairage Competition Category.

ArgentÉclairage· 2021

Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage

by Patrizia Volpato Srl

Client: Patrizia Volpato Srl

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Éclairage Category

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The Design

About Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage

Crypto est une collection d'éclairage modulaire car elle peut s'étendre aussi bien verticalement qu'horizontalement, en fonction de la répartition des éléments en verre individuels qui composent chaque structure. L'idée qui a inspiré le design provient de la nature, rappelant notamment les stalactites de glace. La particularité des articles Crypto réside dans leur verre soufflé vibrant qui permet à la lumière de se diffuser dans de nombreuses directions de manière très douce. La production se fait au moyen d'un processus entièrement artisanal et c'est l'utilisateur final qui décide de la composition de l'installation finale, à chaque fois de manière différente.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Collection Crypto Les Éléments D'éclairage est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Crypto is a modular lighting collection since it can expand vertically as well as horizontally, depending on how the single glass elements that compose each structure are distributed. The canopy of the items that expand horizontally is innovative in terms of design. The entire collection adapts to any location: either just a private house as well as hotels and all wide spaces. Light can come from spotlights placed above the glass pieces or else it can be inside the glass elements.
Dimensions & Packaging: Thanks to their modular entity, Crypto installations can largely vary in terms of sizes, starting from the diameter of a single element which is 200mm and going to more complex compositions that can extend up to 3500mm horizontally and even more, or else 9000mm vertically and still even more. Light can come as either G9 bulbs or built-in LED inside the glass elements or else it can be designed as LED spotlights above the glass elements.
Tags: glass, handcrafted, lighting, design, Italian
Production Technology: The peculiarity of Crypto items stands in their vibrant blown glass that enables light to spread in many directions in a very soft way. Production occurs by means of a completely handcrafted process which leads to a different final result each time. There are 7 different moulds with 3 different cuts, for a total of 21 shapes, to which also different shades can be added. Shades are purposely shown as more intense in the higher part, close to the light source and less vivid towards the final lower part of each glass element.
Design Challenge: The most complex challenge during the creation process was finding the balance between the calibration of the moulds and the glass blowing method to obtain the exact wanted vibrant texture. What guided the process was the concept of molecular structures where singles elements combine to give one whole item, on one side and the know-how of artisan glass master on the other side.
Research: The research behind this product is focused on design and functionality, by means of aesthetics and materials. The main objective was to create an innovative glass texture, defined as vibrant: an hybrid version between a totally smooth surface and a hammered one. To reach such goal, empirical experimentation was carried out, involving two main tools: glass moulds in different materials and management of the glass blowing process. The result is a glass type capable of breaking light in a soft way, differently from the classical frosted glass.
Inspiration: The idea that inspired the design for the Collection Crypto originates from nature, recalling ice stalactites in particular; yet here, differently to nature, the single elements end up being empty as the hand blown glass becomes the real protagonist.
Project Duration: The design project was carried out in Venice, in particular in the island of Murano, known for its artisan glass masters and it took approximately 6 months to get to the first final result starting from the initial concept.
Operation Flow: The end user is the one who has the last word on how the final installation will be composed and therefore it is the final client who ultimately adds value to the finished product, adapting it to a specific location and to personal taste: the beauty of this composition is in fact that the final result is always different.