Flos Ktribe Table Lamp

A member of the Ktribe family of products, this inspiring table light provides diffused light through a transparent diffuser that gracefully moves the eye upward. The base, rod, and diffuser support are die-cast, polished Zamak alloy. It features polished aluminum tubular and an injection-molded, matte black PA (nylon) base cover. The opal inner diffuser is injection-molded PC (polycarbonate). The outer diffuser is transparent or fumèe PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate).

MEASUREMENTS:

T1 Small

• Shade Top Diameter: 12.4 inch


• Height: 22 inch


• Base Width: 8.1 inch


• Cord Length: 64 inch

T2 Large

• Shade Top Diameter: 15.5 inch


• Height: 27.1 inch


• Base Width: 9.8 inch


• Cord Length: 64 inch

MATERIALS:

• Aluminum, PMMA (Polymethyl methacrylate), Polycarbonate, Zamak

HELPFUL NOTES:

• T1: LED Lamp 9W E26 120V 2700K A19 (Bulb Not Included)


• T2: LED Lamp 11.5W E26 120V 2700K A70 (Bulb Not Included)


• Environment: Indoor - Dry Location


• 0-100% dimmer installed on the cord


• cUL Listed

Philippe Starck

France 1949

“I like to open the doors of the human brain” - Philippe Starck

School dropout Philippe Starck jump-started his career by designing two nightclub interiors in Paris in the 1970s. The success of the clubs won the attention of President Francois Mitterand, who asked Starck to refurbish one of the private apartments in the Elysee Palace. Two years later, Starck designed the interior of the Café Costes, in Paris and was on his way to becoming a design celebrity. In quick succession, he created elegant interiors for the Royalton and Paramount hotels in New York, the Delano in Miami and the Mondrian in Los Angeles. He also began to produce chairs, lamps, motorbikes, boats and a line of house wares and kitchen utensils, like his Juicy Salif for Alessi.

During the 1980s and 90s Starck continued his prolific creativity. His products have sensual, appealing forms suggestive of character or personal identity and Starck often conferred upon them clever, poetic or whimsical names (for example, his La Marie chair and playful Prince Aha stool). Starck’s furniture also often reworks earlier decorative styles. For example, the elegant Dr. No chair is a traditional club chair made unexpectedly of injection-molded plastic. While the material and form would seem to be contradictions, it is just such paradoxes that make Starck's work so compelling. Starck’s approach to design is subversive, intelligent and always interesting.

His objects surprise and delight even as they transgress boundaries and subvert expectations. During the 90s Starck has also begun to promote product longevity and to stipulate that morality, honesty and objectivity become part of the design process. He has said that the designer's role is to create more “happiness” with less. For all his fame Starck’s work remains a serious and important expression of 20th century creativity.

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