Contemporary Minimalist Table Lamp with Brazilian Hardwood Base

Paulo Goldstein is a Brazilian - Italian designer/maker/artist. Born in São Paulo (Brazil) in 1980. Paulo graduated from FAAP four-year Fine Arts course in Brazil in 2003 and went on to work as illustrator for magazines and children’s book to model making and sculpting for numerous stop-motion animation projects, including Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie”. In 2012, Paulo completed with Distinction a two years Master in Industrial Design at London's Central Saint Martins, where he developed his ‘Repair is Beautiful’ project, followed by numerous exhibitions including “Collect 2013” at the Saatchi Gallery and from April to September 2015 his work will be at the “What is Luxury?” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2013 he was commissioned by Jeremy Till, Dean of Central Saint Martins to transform an unoccupied space of the School into its Front Parlour with his ‘Scarcity Project’. Goldstein’s work is a repair celebration. Inspired by complexity, errors and its consequences. Goldstein developed a repair methodology that uses elements of broken systems to repair broken objects. His repaired objects, reflects and questions the environment that created them.