Quattrolati

Hisham Kulhanek - 2011

Quattrolati — TQU300-1511 Carrara Marble / Satin Nickel

Four identical sides make a square. There are so many stories around the square. Josef Albers painted one into the other. At the Bauhaus school a common esercise was grouping a number of squares in different settings. It’s the module of the traditional japanese house.
Four points are enough to give birth to a square. Quattrolati is a lamp made of Carrara handpolished marble.
The sides of a square contain an empty space, where the light is spread.

Materials

Marble, Aluminum

Type

Table lamp

Bulbs

1xLED max 4W G9 110-220V

Insulation

Class II / IP20

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Inspiration

Four identical sides make a square. There are so many stories around the square. Josef Albers painted one into the other. At the Bauhaus school a common esercise was grouping a number of squares in different settings. It’s the module of the traditional japanese house.

The logarithmic spiral of a shell was born from a square. Bruno Munari made a sculpture out of a metallic wire square, this sculpture hangs from the ceiling and projects its shadow in a room. A checkers is made of white and black squares. A windmill is a toy you obtain by cutting a square along its diagonals. A labyrinth can be a square. Leonardo has enclosed a human figure in a square. The square gave a structure to our alphabet. Four points are enough to give birth to a square. Quattrolati is a lamp made of Carrara handpolished marble. The sides of a square contain an empty space, where the light is spread.