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Emanuele Nava (1989) and Luca Maria Arosio (1988) are the founders of Nava + Arosio Studio (2014). Their studio is located in two main headquarters, an office in Milan, and a big house-studio-lab in Lissone. They met and began collaborating on product design at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan. They graduated in 2012 with an honors degree in Product Design, gaining much recognition for their project titled “Maniacal Mirrors”. As a team, they have worked on projects for many prestigious firms such as Rubelli, Lago, Rival1920, and Italamp. Their designs are holistic and humanistic and considering the consumers material and functional needs.
Those who are familiar with the art and design world, may recognize the name Dali, Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali; who’s paintings have left a tremendous mark on art history and teachings in painting. The two designers, Palo and Luca, drew their inspiration from the from the famous painting The Persistence of Memory 1931. When “delineating the sinuous lines of the thermoformed glass lamps, they aimed to “soften” the glass. Inspired by the the famous clocks in the painting, overlapping layers, giving the lamp the “ethereal lightness of a veil”. The Dali has LED light has sources inserted within the metal support of the lamp, curved like a necklace. The lamp is available in green, amethyst, blue, and grey. The designers made this lamp with the intention of changing the nature of familiar objects, whilst still allowing their functionality.
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