Ross Lovegrove for Luceplan

ROSS LOVEGROVE (Cardiff, UK, 1958) for LUCEPLAN.
Agaricon" table lamp, 2001.
Glass, aluminum and polycarbonate.
It has a touch dimmer.
Presents label on the base.
Measurements: 30 x 42 x 42 cm.
Designed as an artificial polycarbonate mushroom with a light source inside, Agaricon recreates with its material transparency the translucency of mineral water bottles, while the luminosity can be regulated by touching the tactile and thermosensitive ring that surrounds the rim. "In this way," Lovegrove told Domus, "in a physical sense, this piece ultimately reveals a strange ambiguity, displaying both the proportions of a mushroom and the transparency of a jellyfish."
Designer Ross Lovegrove studied industrial design at Manchester Polytechnic, then went on to take a master's degree in design at the Royal College of Art in London, completing his training in 1983. From then on he worked for Frog Design in Germany, on products such as Walkmans for Sony, computers for Apple, etc. He then moved to Paris to work for Knoll International, where he was the author of the successful Alessandri office system. Later he was invited to participate in the Atelier de Nimes with Jean Nouvel and Philippe Stark, advising, among others, Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Dupont. He returned to London in 1986, and completed projects for Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idee, Moroso, Luceplan, Dirade, Peugeot, Apple, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Alias, Tag Heuer and others, as well as for Japan Airlines and Tokyo Ito Architects in Japan. Throughout his career, Ross Lovegrove has won major international awards, and his work has been widely published, and exhibited in such prominent venues as MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Axis Center in Japan, the Pompidou in Paris or the Design Museum in London, where since 1993 he has had his first permanent collection.