Fluid Light, Pure Form.

ANEMONE began in 2007 as a lamp of copper tubes gathered in a bundle, shaped like the tentacles of a sea anemone. It received a Special Mention at Il Rame e la Casa, the first European design competition on copper in the home, promoted by the Istituto Italiano del Rame and the European Copper Institute, from a jury that included the design critic Cristina Morozzi.

Years later the idea returned in a new material. ANEMONE is now a light object in laser-cut PMMA, assembled entirely by joinery, with no glue and no screws, that can hang from the ceiling or stand on a table. The method comes from sashimono, the Japanese art of interlocking woodwork, translated into sheets of acrylic: each piece is cut, slotted and locked into the next, and the light runs through the transparent structure, catching every cut edge. MEDUSA, developed later from the same system, is a table lamp with a silhouette of its own.

For a manufacturer, the system is as lean as it is recognisable. All components are cut from standard sheets, assembly requires no adhesives or fasteners, and any colour of PMMA can be used, so a single set of cutting files generates a whole family of variants. ANEMONE and MEDUSA belong to the Transparent Experiments series, which applies the same joinery logic to different typologies, including Paolo & Francesco