Carpet Matter Light N°3 by Riccardo Cenedella

About the Item

Carpet matter light n°3 by Riccardo Cenedella Dimensions: 90 x 50 x 20 cm Materials: Waste synthetic Carpet, White LED Neonflex, 2m electric wire Variations of LED Neonflex color available. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wired for the USA for instance. I am Riccardo Cenedella I graduated in product design from Politecnico di Torino in 2016 and straight after my graduation I started to work for an art design studio in Turin. There I started to develop my passion for making things with my hands and became confident with using the most common tools. However, while I was in the process of creating, I started to feel guilty about making objects only to satisfy my pleasure but without a specific purpose, and be part of the conventional linear model of take-make-discard and the current approach to materiality and objects. For this reason, in 2019, I decided to study MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martins in London. Studying there I came across the theory of Charles Levi-Strauss who described the figure of the bricoleur as the one who always makes with "whatever is at hand", after research into this topic I find out that for me this means to set the limit of my practice to the use of only waste materials. Inspiration: The Carpet Matter collection is a great representation of my practice: as an alchemist, through ingenuity, persistence and hands-on experimentation, a useless material is transformed into design artefacts. While I was researching about what waste material I wanted to use for my final year project, I bumped into some carpet waste during a walk around my neighbourhood. This material grabbed my attention and when I discovered that the vast majority of carpet is made with thermoplastic materials I decided to experiment treating it as a common plastic. Through hands-on experimentation with synthetic materials, I developed a technique that allows me to reshape and repurpose this material for the creation of new design artefacts, avoiding carpet from ending up in dumpsites.

Dimensions:

Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 35.44 in (90 cm)Depth: 19.69 in (50 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Other,Other

Place of Origin:

England

Period:

2010-

Date of Manufacture:

2022