A provocative design and instant classic from Philippe Starck.
DESIGNED TO PROVOKE THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION
Philippe Starcks series of Gun Lamps creates a multitude of conversation and commentary. This Gun Table Lamp has a body made of die cast aluminium. The base of the Gun Table Lamp is available in either an 18K gold plated finish or a galvanised chrome. The diffuser or shade is matt black plasticized paper with a silk screen gold or white internal silver silkscreened. On the cable there is the electronic dimmer which allows the regulation of light brightness. The Lounge Gun Floor Lamp is perfect for reading or ambient lighting
Philippe Starck
The thousands of projects - complete or forthcoming - his global fame and tireless protean inventiveness should never distract from Philippe Starck’s fundamental vision: Creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible.
Starck vehemently believes this poetic and political duty, rebellious and benevolent, pragmatic and subversive, should be shared by everyone and he sums it up with the humour that has set him apart from the very beginning: "No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to participate."
His precocious awareness of ecological implications, his enthusiasm for imagining new lifestyles, his determination to change the world, his love of ideas, his concern with defending the intelligence of usefulness – and the usefulness of intelligence – has taken him from iconic creation to iconic creation...
From the everyday products, furniture and lemon squeezers, to revolutionary mega yachts, hotels that stimulate the senses, phantasmagorical venues and individual wind turbines, he never stops pushing the limits and criteria of contemporary design. His dreams are solutions, solutions so vital that he was the first French man to be invited to the TED conferences (Technology, Entertainment & Design) alongside renowned participants including Bill Clinton and Richard Branson.
Inventor, creator, architect, designer, artistic director, Philippe Starck is certainly all of the above, but more than anything else he is an honest man directly descended from the Renaissance artists.
Italian lighting manufacturer Flos has been a driving force in innovative techniques and surprising shapes for over fifty years.