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Object Name"Chantal" Lamp
Designer Stephen Burks (American, b. 1969)
Manufacturer Ligne Roset
Made FromGlass, Electrical Fittings
Datedesigned in 2011; made in 2012
Place MadeFrance, Montagnieu
TechniqueMold-blown, drilled, assembled
SizeOverall H: 35.3 cm, Diam (max): 35 cm
Accession Number2012.3.32
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewContemporary Art + Design, Design Gallery
Interpretive Notes
Raised in Chicago, Stephen Burks studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), product design at IIT’s Institute of Design, and he pursued graduate studies in architecture at Columbia University in New York. In 1997, he founded his Brooklyn-based studio, Readymade Projects, where he designs retail interiors, events, packaging, consumer products, lighting, furniture, and home accessories. Burks has developed innovative concepts for leading, internationally-known design brands and he is a design activist, committed to sustainable design in the developing world through his association with the American non-profits, Aid To Artisans and the Nature Conservancy. Since 2005, he has also worked as a consultant, collaborating with artisans around the world in Australia, India, Mexico, Peru, South Africa and Senegal to build a bridge from developing world artisanry to first world distribution. In 2007, Burks designed the “Tatu” wire table collection, which is produced by hand in South Africa for Artecnica's Design With Conscience program. In 2008, he designed Cappellini's first eco-conscious collection, also artisanally produced in South Africa by a community collective, Mandela Mosaics, in the township of Nelson Mandela's birth. Burks employs a diversity of materials in his designs, ranging from metals, wood, and fiber to, more recently, glass. At the 2011 Cologne Furniture Fair, the French contemporary furniture manufacturer Ligne Roset launched their first product designed by Burks. The “Chantal” glass table lamp is literally ready-made. Its combination of inverted vase and bowl forms reflects Burks’s characteristic practice of combining and recombining familiar forms to create new, totemic forms. In 2011, Burks also participated in the Museum’s design program, GlassLab, at the Vitra Design Museum during the contemporary art fair, Art Basel. This lamp is part of an open edition.
Physical Description"Chantal" Lamp. Colorless glass, electrical fittings; mold-blown, drilled, assembled. (a) Inverted conical vase serves as the lamp base with 4.2 cm hole drilled at the top for the bulb socket. The shade (b) is an inverted bowl with a depression and an 0.8 cm hole drilled at top. (c) Bright red electrical cord with threaded bulb socket, black switch, and outlet plug. Bulb socket fits between lamp base and shade; bulb socket is connected to lamp base and shade using the pipe cylinder and metal cap. (d) White threaded pipe cylinder that screws onto bulb socket. (e) White metal cap with threaded screw that joins to top of bulb socket. (f) Colorless plastic washer that fits between metal cap and shade.
Provenance
Source Ligne Roset - 2012-2012
Object copyright© Ligne Roset
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