Hello and welcome to another wonderful end of the week instalments of Furniture Fridays. Today I am thrilled to have Milda from Margas with us. Milda has an incredible eye for design and her posts are always thoughtful, inspiring and beautiful to look at. Living in Kaunas, Lithuania, she is the voice behind this wonderful blog as well as a fashion journalist and stylist. Please stop by her blog as it really is inspiring, and enjoy her ever wonderful selection below. Thanks and have a great weekend!
About me
I am a fashion journalist and stylist, but my passion for interior
design lately has been eclipsing everything else. I write the Margas blog in
order to educate myself about interior design and share the things I find
interesting with others.
About an iconic
design piece
When Anna asked me to contribute to her blog writing about my favorite
piece of iconic furniture design, my mind went blank. The thought of having to
choose ONE item was horrifying!
So I thought about my favorite Mies Van der Rohe’s chairs, and Hans
Wegner’s, and Niels O. Møllers, then about tables, then sofas…and ended up with
a lamp. Don’t ask. It just felt right at this point in time – maybe because I
am on the hunt for lamps for my living room. The ‘Arco’ design by Achille Castiglioni
and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos (1962) is instantly recognizable. The
elegant arch, the luxurious marble – I’d call it an aristocratic piece of
design (the marble bit really does it for me; I’m slightly marble-crazy).
‘Arco’ is also aristocratic for another reason – you can’t really put it
in a small room… It needs space! I like to imagine this lamp in an Italian
palazzo with really tall ceilings and modernist furniture; they go together
like salt and pepper. That is not to say that ‘Arco’ is not practical.
Apparently, Achille Castiglioni designed it when he grew frustrated with
ceiling lamps. Big as it is, ‘Arco’ is a real multi-tasker: you can use it to
light your work desk or dinner table or reading nook.
Yes, this lamp has been slightly over-used and over-copied, as have all design
classics. But its elegance is timeless and I would totally like to have one in
my living room. Thank you for inviting me to be your blog-guest, Anna!
Thanks A. Like your guest author says, the lamp has been copied and utterly overused but it was excellent to revisit it. You know, sometimes you need to be re-inspired as I was!
ReplyDelete