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Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi by Alvaro Wolmer

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award in Zvigadzirwa zveMwenje neZvinoisa Mwenje Competition Category.


SirivhaMwenje· 2022

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Espólio Família Cordeiro and Luciana Brito Galeria

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award Winner in Mwenje Category

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The Design

About Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi

Book Text: Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro irambi rakafuridzirwa negwara rambi rakagadzirwa nemuumbi wezvinhu wekuBrazil munenge muna 1955. Chinyorwa chega chakasara cheiri rambi rekutanga imifananidzo miduku yepepanhau. Iri rambi rakagadziruzva nezvishandiswa uye maitiro emazuva ano. Chimiro chacho chakagadzirwa nealuminium yakasimba yakaumbwa nemichina inodzorwa nekombuta uye ikapedziswa nekupenda kwe electrostatic. Chinwe chega chinhu che 4W LED chinovaka mhando dzakasiyana dzemumvuri, kubva pagray ine rima kusvika kuchena chaicho, kuburikidza nekuratidzira mukati uye kusiyana kwenhambo pakati pesosi uye maringi machena.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi, rukudzo rwakakwirira zvikuru runopiwa kumadhizaini epamusoro, anonaka uye anofadza. Vakunda veSirivha mabasa anopenya kwazvo uye ane kugadzira kwakasiyana anoratidza unyanzvi, hunyanzvi hwekusikwa nekungwara kwevagadziri vawo. Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi inotarisirwa kuva basa rinoshamisa, rinotangira vamwe, rine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva zvakadzika. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award chigadzirwa chinoshamisa, chinokudzwa chinobatsira uye chinosundira mberi miganhu yehunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji. Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Rambi chigadzirwa chinoshuvirwa nevazhinji, chinomutsa zvishuvo, chinouya nemanzwiro akanaka uye chinomutsa kushamisika.

Behind the Design

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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

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