About Ceramic Vases and Objects for Produzione Privata:
"Ceramic was the first material which I used to express my own ideas and feelings without having to respond to anybody but myself.
In the designing of the ceramic vases you can follow my process of transition from Memphis to my own identity which I wanted to express in Produzione Privata: I began with black and white designs, still influenced by Memphis, and moved to pure white vases using the natural colour of the material, which is more than a colour, giving expression of the specific magnificent material which can vary so much from clay to clay from backing to backing.
The white vases were born essential in colour, big volumes, expressing simplicity and harmony - requiring considerable artisan capacity and conviction for their realisation.
Another material, which I wanted to use to create a specific quality of light, was porcelain - at that time completely out of use for domestic product. The material is so difficult too work almost no artisan is ready to work it. But used around a light source this material creates a most fascinating, poetic effects, being a warm opaque diffuser it gives its surrounding a somewhat mysterious unreal dimension."
Michele De Lucchi
P R O D U C E R Produzione Privata, Italy
2001
M A T E R I A L
A N D
D I M E N S I O N S
mixed media
Diameter 55 cm - Height 75 cm
This edition is part of the Ready Made workshop inspired by the Ready Made concept in the art of Marcel Duchamp and dadaism. It is a concept whereby existing parts are assembled and transferred into design, where it acquires a fresh meaning by focusing on a particular system of very common industrial production.
These lamps of mine in 2001 are made with ordinary bulbs, and their form is created to paly with their shapes. They reflect a contemporary essentiality reminiscent of minimalism in art and architecture.
The idea of these lamps was born in 1997, during an Artemide workshop. Now they have been published in numbers limited to 10 per type, in a version with base, for collectors.
Michele De Lucchi
