Gherpe

⬜️ Light that thinks. A table that moves.

Gherpe doesn’t illuminate a room — it occupies it.
Superstudio’s 1968 lamp reads as pure sculpture until it wakes up.
Crazy Horse does the same from below: Sottsass gave four legs a posture, not just a function.

Both pieces were made the same year. Both refuse to stand still.

At UN—, Poltronova’s installation at @isaloniofficial 2026, nothing was placed to be admired.
Everything was placed to be questioned.

◻️ Gherpe by Superstudio 1968
◻️ Crazy Horse by Ettore Sottsass jr. 1968

📸 Serena Eller Vainicher / Eller Studio @serenaeller @ellerstudio
🎨 Exhibition Creative Direction: @_d_apostrophe_ @donutsinho

⬜️ The Crazy Horse table, designed in 1968 by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, returns to production in 2025. Its slender laminated top is supported by four bold, painted metal legs. The geometric essentiality of the form plays against the dynamic tilt of the legs—true protagonists of this project named after the iconic Parisian cabaret founded in 1951. This piece feels strikingly contemporary and proves that great design continues to tell stories—beyond trends and passing fads.

⬜️ The Gherpe table lamp does not belong to the traditional typologies of lighting fixtures placed on a surface, due to its form like the shell of a marine creature, and to its use of an industrial material like methacrylate. It represents one of the first examples of an interactive luminous object, which thanks to its relationship with the user is capable of changing its tone: from white light for illumination, to colored light to alter the emotional perception of a space.

⬜️ Domestic space is no longer defined.

Poltronova returns to Salone del Mobile with UN—, an installation that takes shape from a condition that is unstable, open, and in constant transformation.

Following XS from the previous edition, where surface generated space, UN— operates through subtraction: not what is shown, but what remains incomplete, suspended, in progress.

Space no longer presents itself as a finished form, but as a process.

It is constructed as it unfolds.

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#poltronova #gherpe #crazyhorse #EttoreSottsass #superstudio

What happens when the domestic landscape dissolves—what remains?

Centro Studi Poltronova presents

XS
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera Milano, Hall 24 | Booth D33

Milano Design Week 2025
April 7-13

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Until April 13
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-- #gherpelamp by Superstudio
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-- #ultrafragolamirror by Ettore Sottsass jr.

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XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs like:

— 🐚 Gherpe, table lamp by Superstudio 1968
— 🌴 Sanremo, floor lamp by Archizoom Associati 1968
— 📐 Mies, armchair and footrest by Archizoom Associati, 1969

+ alongside something unexpected. Are you ready?

XS
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
 
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm


#Poltronova #Superstudio #Gherpe #GherpeLamp 
#SanremoLamp #MiesArmchair #Mies #ArchizoomAssociati #RadicalDesign #PopDesign #Design #ItalianDesign #MadeInItaly #MilanoDesignWeek #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #Fuorisalone2025 #DesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile #MDW2025 #MDW #SaloneDelMobile2025

Poltronova | Gherpe Lamp | Table Lamp | Superstudio | Sanremo Floor Lamp | Interior Design | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Radical Design | Mies armchair and footrest | Archizoom Associati

“Forme mobili”

📍 @triennalemilano
⏳ Until April 13 2025

“Forme mobili is an invitation to think of movement as a design action. It explores the relationships between body and silhouette, gesture and structure, in a path in which objects from the collections of Triennale are organized in ten sections and in which the chosen themes represent constants in Italian design. Three new areas of research and dissemination enrich the collections: fashion, which in each section is related to the museum’s works by compositional assonances between forms, materials, historical periods and design ideas; boating, with drawings and models of boats, between ingenuity, technology and interior culture; and illustration and drawing for magazines and newspapers. The itinerary culminates in the Design Platform, a dynamic space dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary designers and new forms, where there is an exhibition on fashion designer Monica Bolzoni.”

Artwork: Luca Stoppini Studio @lucastoppinistudio

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#UltrafragolaMirror
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