Loom
Sofia Gandini
The aim of this project was, while looking at our surroundings, to find a form, a detail that could inspire us into designing and creating a new tool, transferring a shape from an object to the other. In my case, this action of transferring was not induced by a specific object but from a sensation, a feeling, an idea of atmosphere.
For centuries the Stube has been the main room of the house in the Ladin valleys and throughout Tyrol. Entirely covered in wood, it owes its name to the large lime stove it is equipped with, which makes the environment the heating point of the house: like its Ladin equivalent “stüa”, the word “Stube” is in fact related to the common stove. The heart of the home and family life, it is comparable to the living room.
When I went to the Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck, there was a space in the exhibition dedicated to them and what I found inspiring there was the atmosphere that I could feel because of the lighting. These rooms have in fact a particular lighting thanks to the unique windows they feature, that create patterns all around the place. For my project I decided to transfer this feeling of relaxation and calm found in the Stube that is emphasized by this soft light coming through the windows.
Loom becomes an attempt of transferring the light pattern that can create a relaxed atmosphere in the room the lamp is placed in.
Loom is a standing lamp made of iron, characterized by four circles, two of which are fixed and two of which are able to move. With an intricate but simple game of stripes, a mechanism allows the two circles in the middle to increment or reduce the intensity of the light just by moving them easily up and down. This movement is also the reason why a set of stripes is projected all around the room when the light is on, having it more intense when the two circles are close and less intense the more far they are.
The Migration of Forms
