Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna by Alvaro Wolmer

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Designatio Luminarium Competition Category.

ArgentumLuminaria· 2022

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Espólio Família Cordeiro and Luciana Brito Galeria

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Luminaria Category

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The Design

About Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro est lucerna a lampade humi posita inspirata, quae ab artifice Brasiliensi circa annum MCMLV facta est. Unicum monumentum superstes lucernae pristinae est parva photographia ephemeridis. Lucerna materiis et artibus recentibus recreata est. Structura ex solido aluminio constat, machinis a computatro directis formato et pictura electrostatica perfecto. Unicus fons lucis LED quattuor wattorum varietatem colorum efficit, a cano obscuro usque ad candorem purum, per reflexiones internas et diversas distantias inter fontem et anulos albos.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Lucerna creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: From a single source of light, due to internal reflections and the different distances from the source to the white rings, a 4W LED lamp can create a range of shades, varying from dark gray to pure white
Dimensions & Packaging: Lamp: 54 cm high x 30 cm of diameter x 3 kg. Luxury crate: 58.5 cm height x 33 cm x 33 cm x 3 kg of MDF. The crate can be used as a base to the lamp (a bonus)
Tags: artwork, table lamp, floor lamp, lighting design, Waldemar Cordeiro, Alvaro Wolmer
Production Technology: The lamp structure was made of solid aluminum using computerized machines by Alvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda, the woodworking and metal shop of the team's head designer, Alvaro Wolmer. The finishing is electrostatic painting
Design Challenge: In the first model, the architect and designer Andre Vainer reproduced the original one, with two lamps. The result was a good light and not so much of an effect regarding the shadings of light, but it was a very good starting point. I was hired to develop the product and produce a prototype of the lamp. I made models to establish the exact proportions then I came up with a simple solution: one simple LED round lamp that delivered a bright enough light. After finishing the pre-prototype, I turned on the light in a dark room - the result was stunning
Research: In c.1955 a fine Brazilian artist designed and made a lamp to illuminate a garden landscape designed by him. There is only a single register of the lamp: a small piece of journal with its photograph. That was the starting point to recreate the lamp and the magnificent light effect produced by it. In 2017 Analivia Cordeiro, the artist's collection curator and an artist herself, and Luciana Brito Galeria, that represents Cordeiro since 1997, both decided to recreate the original one, with contemporary materials and techniques
Inspiration: The original lamp, which only remaining reference is a small piece of newspaper, c. 1955, with a photo of a floor lamp made by Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973), a very important contemporary Brazilian artist. Cordeiro was a concrete artist, a theorist, and a landscape designer. The first artist of computer art, now called Digital Art, in Latin America. His works of art are in many important worldwide collections, including the MoMA NY
Project Duration: The project started in March 2017 in Sao Paulo and was finished also in Sao Paulo in October 2018
Operation Flow: There is a on/off press button underside the lamp
Patents: The design was registered in the IAB - Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil.
Team Members: Lead Designer: Alvaro Wolmer
Analivia Cordeiro
Andre Vainer
Image Credits: All photos were taken by Ding Musa in October 2021