Designed in 1964, Splugen Brau is a blast from the past, but very much of today. Created by the fabulous Achille and Piere Giamcomo Castiglioni, this iconic light is timeless. 

The Splugen Brau is a suspension fixture providing direct light. 

Materials & features
Polished zapon varnished spun aluminium reflector. Steel ceiling fitting, vacuum-formed ABS (UL-94 V2) rose with gloss white finish. 

PVC coated power cord, length 220 cm. 

This product is a reproduction of the original design by Achille Castiglioni

Dimensions 

Diameter – 36 cm

Height – 22 cm

Materials – Polished Aluminium 

Achille Castiglioni (Milan, 1918-2002) was a renowned industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials. He uses the minimal amount of materials while creating forms with a maximum effect.

When Paola Antonelli, design curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was an architecture student at Milan Polytechnic in the 1980s, one of the most popular tutors was Achille Castiglioni. For his lectures on industrial design, he would arrive with what Antonelli described as: “a large Mary Poppins-like black bag from which he would extract and line up on the table that day’s chosen pieces from his stupendous collection of found objects: toys made from beer cans that he had bought in Teheran, odd eyeglasses…. wooden stools from Aspen, Colorado… small suction cups strong enough to lift a table. These were the most effective tools of design instruction.”

Brandishing each object in turn Castiglioni would show his students how they worked. Antonelli recalled how at one lecture he jumped up on a table to demonstrate the ingenuity of a small wooden milking stool by miming the milking of an invisible cow. Thus he would show how an apparently humble object could constitute intelligent, inspiring design if it fulfilled its function with humour and verve by using the resources available to its designer or maker.

Castiglioni applied those criteria to his own work and urged his students to do the same. ”Start from scratch,” he told them. “Stick to common sense. Know your goals and means.” His contention was that to design a new product or to improve an existing one, the designer had a responsibility first to analyse whether it was necessary to do so and then to investigate what sort of "means", or resources such as technologies and materials, were available to develop and produce it.

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