concept & vision

ARCO SBAGLIATO - sbagliato as in erroneous, mistaken - is our reinterpretation of Castiglioni’s iconic lamp. We honor its dimensional perfection translating it through our material world.

design & architecture

our ARCO SBAGLIATO begins with S18, a fragment from one shipping container that we cut into pieces as a sort of exorcism against the object we use all the time, its global shipping network impact and contamination. Our container base is heavy, held on the ground by the ‘corner casting’, the steel piece that makes the container intelligent and transportable—we see it as our contemporary equivalent of the Carrara marble block. Our base tapers, it wants to hold something else. Rebars of different gauges, emulating the telescopic metal segments of the original and only, are fastened to each other and can be loosened again for transportation. The lamp shade is still a bowl, though we now have LED and can work with something visually solid yet more tender to replicate its shape. Naturally the electric cable is colored and exposed

impact & significance

our inspiration is open and declared – the lamp is an homage to Castiglioni’s ARCO, a true icon. We bring it to right now, to the less-perfect world we inhabit, to the things we make and the ones we dismiss. We bring it to our own design effort and concerns. But also, to the playfulness that transformation offers, when things mundane take different shape and use, when they bring us surprise, when they make us question, wonder, smile