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Passiflora

by Superstudio

The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.

 

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  • year1967
  • typologytable lamp
  • dimension30[l] x 41[w] x 29[h] cm
  • weight1,5 kg
  • materialscut and glued Perspex® and opalin tube
  • colours[body] white opaline
    [flower] yellow
  • bulb1 x LED A60 E27 10W [max] 6400K
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Exhibitions

  • 1966Passiflora prototype exhibited in Superarchitettura, Pistoia, Italy
  • 1968Eurodomus 2, Torino Esposizioni, Turin
  • 1970Domus Italian Design, Harrods, London 1972 Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2007Superarchitettura Re—loaded, Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan
  • 2008Design Parade 03 Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
  • 2010Biennale di Design, Palazzo dei Capitani, Ascoli Piceno, Italy | Pop Design, Filatoio di Caraglio, Cuneo, Italy
  • 2011Superstudio Backstage, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
  • 2012Pop Art Design Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany | Pop Art Design, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  • 2013Superstudio Backstage 1966—1978, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy | Pop Art Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm | Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • 2015Super Superstudio, PAC, Milan | Pop Art Design, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
  • 2016Superstudio 50, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
  • 2017 Architettura invisibile: Un’analisi dei movimenti degli architetti Italiani e Giapponesi degli anni ’60 e ’70 e dibattito contemporaneo, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome | Superstudio: Mobili 1966–2016, Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne | Superstudio 50, Power Station of art, Shangai | Radical Utopias. Beyond architecture: Florence 1966—1976, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  • 2018Joeuts à Jouer: Oggetti nella foresta, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Brussels | Radical Utopias. Beyond architecture: Florence 1966—1976, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal | Vegetal House, MuMeDi Museo Mexicano del Diseño, Mexico City
  • 2019The Undomestic House: Architettura e abitare, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea “Osvaldo Licini”, Ascoli Piceno, Italy | I–Made: Italian Manufacture Art & Design exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London | Italian Design Day Superstudio and the city, Embassy of Italy and Openlab, Stockholm | Porto Design Biennale, Palácio das Artes Fundação da Juventude, Porto | Florence Biennale: Biennale Internazionale di Arte contemporanea di Firenze, Fortezza da Basso, Florence | Guardare la luna non il dito, MAC, Lissone, Italy
  • 2020Superstudio Migrazioni, CIVA, Brussels | Poltronova. La casa non domestica, Contemporary Cluster, Roma
  • 2023Ultrafavola. Poltronova beyond the mirror, Milano Design Week, Milano

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🦄 ULTRAFAVOLA: Poltronova beyond the mirror
Milano Design Week 2023
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On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, Centro Studi Poltronova renews its synergy with Mosca Partners for Design Variations, this time crossing the threshold of the Palazzo del Circolo Filologico Milanese in the heart of the Brera Design District. From 17 to 23 April, the Tuscan company will take centre stage. In the large and evocative Liberty Hall, under the luminous eye of a suggestive skylight, in a maze of rooms suspended in space and time, iconic objects and unusual new proposals will be displayed as if they had jumped out of one of the over ten thousand volumes of the library of the city's oldest cultural association that has its headquarters here. With ULTRAFAVOLA, inspired by its own “best seller”, the Ultrafragola mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass, the Centro Studi Poltronova, just like in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, invites you to go beyond reflective surfaces to discover the magical dimension of part of its fantastic product catalogue. 
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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👯 Rug by @poltronova | @cc-tapis
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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📆 2023 April 17–23 
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📍@design_variations, @circolofilologicomilanese, via Clerici 10, Milan
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#poltronova #ultrafavola #prato #pratorug #plasma #plasmachair #plasmaarmchair #passiflora #passifloralamp #archizoom #archizoomassociati #nigelcoates #superstudio #milandesignweek2023 #milanodesignweek2023 #milan #design #mdw2023 #designvariations2023 #circolofilologicomilanese #breradesigndistrict  #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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📍 @thesocialhub.florence
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @pietrosavorelli_associati
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📍 @thesocialhub.florence
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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📍 Budini Gattai Palace, Florence
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
Passiflora, lamp by Superstudio, Elle Decor Design Forever, Palazzo Bovara, Milan Design Week 2022.
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Studio Calvi Brambilla choosed Poltronova for Palazzo Bovara. The exhibition curated by one of the most eclectic and interesting realities of the Italian scene, showed PASSIFLORA by Superstudio in the Pure Room. The PASSIFLORA lighting fixture originated from a cardboard model painted for the exhibition “Superarchitecture” (1966) manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a luminous column trunk: a column whose deformed shape oscillates between the natural and the artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguity, corresponding to Superstudio's declaration of intent, summarized in the text Design d'invenzione e design d'evasione.

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📍 Palazzo Bovara, corso Venezia 51, Milan
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💡 Exhibition design by @calvibrambilla
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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🙏 Thanks to @elledecoritalia
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #elledecoritalia #elledecor #calvibrambilla #designforever #milanodesignweek #milandesignweek #mdw2022 #milandesignweek2022
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
.
The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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🙏 Rug by @cc_tapis
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @serenaeller
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
🌼 Passiflora
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #tablelamp
Passiflora by Superstudio. Light of evasion and invention, poetry which becomes dwelling.
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#poltronova #superstudio #passiflora #passifloralamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #architecture #furniture #furnituredesign #italiandesign #madeinitaly photo by @donutsinho

Superstudio

1967 — 1978

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To request information, please write to info@poltronova.it, for a quote to sales@poltronova.it.