Golf lamp, Pierre Castignola

About the Item

Amsterdam based designer Pierre Castignola (France - 1995) graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy in 2018. He aims to have a conceptual background in his work while focusing on a surprising, intriguing and surrealist outcome. His conceptual focus belongs in the perception of the world, with a strong fascination for semiotics and symbols to lead to a radical and critical design. He sets out to redefine the paradigm of creation and consumption. Copytopia is often viewed as the artist’s main body of work. Fascinated by the complexity and symbols surrounding the infamous chair commonly known as monobloc, Castignola employs discarded plastic garden chairs as raw material, which he then cuts and reassembles to constitute a variety of everyday objects. With the use of existing pieces of furniture as part of new ones the artist sets out to question the legitimacy of intellectual property, while simultaneously prompting us to reevaluate our relationship with the objects around us, bringing value back to the ones some might consider disposable. The Golf lamp is the first design of Castignola that incorporate a ready made object that isn’t a plastic chair. The “parametric series” explores an attitude toward everyday object to consider them as abstract shapes rather than functional object. It aims to see past the function of an object to give it an other purpose and value an artefact for its form while playing with the connotative links around it. Using a slazenger cone as lampshade he named the lamp “Golf” as the connotation that brand means to him is a scene from the James Bond movie “Goldfinger” happening on a golf course. can be adapted for non-european power.

Dimensions:

Height: 19.3 in (49 cm)Width: 13.78 in (35 cm)Depth: 13.78 in (35 cm)

Power Source:

Plug-in

Voltage:

220-240v

Lampshade:

Included

Style:

Post-Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Aluminum,Composition,Plastic,Amsterdam School,Découpage,Hand-Crafted,Molded,Patchwork