Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone by Alvaro Wolmer

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Dihlahiswa le Ditlhophiso tsa Lesedi Competition Category.

SileveraLesedi· 2022

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Espólio Família Cordeiro and Luciana Brito Galeria

Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award Winner in Lesedi Category

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The Design

About Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone

Book Text: Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro ke lebone le nkileng maikutlo ho lebone la fatše le entsoeng ke moetsi oa litšoantšo oa Brazil hoo e ka bang ka 1955. Rekoto e le 'ngoe feela e setseng ea lebone la pele ke setšoantšo se senyenyane sa koranta. Lebone lena le ile la thehoa bocha ka lisebelisoa le mekhoa ea sejoale-joale. Sebopeho se entsoe ka aluminium e tiileng e bōpiloeng ke mechine e laoloang ke khomphutha 'me se felisitsoe ka pente ea electrostatic. Mohloli o le mong oa leseli la LED oa 4W o hlahisa mefuta e fapaneng ea meriti, ho tloha ho e putsoa e lefifi ho ea ho e tšoeu e hloekileng, ka litšoantšo tsa ka hare le sebaka se fapaneng lipakeng tsa mohloli le lisekhutlo tse tšoeu.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award

Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo e phahameng ka ho fetesisa, e ntle le e tsosang maikutlo. Bahapi ba Silevera ke mesebetsi e khanyang haholo le e nang le boqapi bo ikhethang e bontšang botsebi, talenta le bohlale ba baqapi ba eona. Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone e lebelletsoe ho ba mosebetsi o motle, oa mohlala, o nang le boprofeshenale bo bonahalang le mehopolo e mecha e tebileng. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award ke mohopolo o hlokomelehang haholo le o ratoang o tlisang molemo mme o sutumelletsang meeli ea bonono, mahlale, moralo le theknoloji. Depois de Waldemar Cordeiro Primary Function: Lebone ke mosebetsi oo batho ba bangata ba o lakatsang, o tsosang litakatso, o tlisang maikutlo a matle le o tsosetsang ho makala le ho hlolla.

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