Beautiful Mess

Just like the “creature”, the canonical elements are all here – a supporting structure, arms, lamps, and a cable – but Marcantonio’s irreverent borderline approach, somewhere between art and design, has brought to life a new, deconstructed silhouette, created by mixing shapes, materials, and styles, all apparently belonging to the semantic area of lighting, although from different times and places. Lots of Murano blown glass arms with a white frosted finish emerge from the central structure in white metal; the joints have rosettes and bobeches in crystal from Bohemia, stolen from the mid-18th century traditions of Venice. As ideal pendants, the designer has inserted a gas lamp, a classic bedside lamp with fabric shade, a glass bell, a lamp with a flexible arm, and even a 1980s-style neon bar. The mix also has no shortage of little “intruders” like a leaping fish in glass and a pink neon heart, providing the only note of colour.