Hasta La Ideas

Italian designer Federica Bubani lives and works in her hometown of Faenza in Central Italy, where she completed her degree in ceramics at the Institute for Ceramic Arts. Her portfolio of furniture and lighting designs reflects a remarkably refined design language, including a recent work called the “Nordic Lamp.”

If the parallel wooden supports are understated per the lamp’s name, the materials are rather more Mediterranean than Nordic: the white clay resembles blasted sand, and the tandem implementation of the elongated bell form—something like a baseless wineglass—vaguely evokes Islamic architecture as well.

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