Nendo: Eigruob

Nendo designed for Kartell the lamp Eigruob, unveiled at Maison&Objet 2014 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bourgie lamp.

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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its iconic Bourgie table lamp, Kartell invited ten designers associated with the company to create tribute pieces for a special exhibition.

For his contribution, Nendo decided to work with two of the lamp’s most distinctive characteristics – its use of silhouettes and its transparency – rather than touching the original design itself. He created a new table lamp by inverting and rotating the Bourgie lamp’s silhouette, so that when two of the new lamps are lined up together, the space between them forms the upside-down silhouette of the Bourgie lamp. Because Nendo’s homage inverts both the lamp’s figure-ground relationship and our regular sense of up and down, he named the lamp Eigruob.