"About the Chimera Lamp. All my sketches testify to the attempt to give my drawing the task, from its very first formulation, to illustrate the meaning, the soul, that my proposal would like to express, suggesting the technical means and the definitions of the materials necessary for a economic and correct implementation of series production. Therefore, for me, drawing is not reproducing the object in all its morphological and technical details but it is a means of digging deeper and deeper into, to find and express the soul, the essence of the object, or rather the other possible one. reality that exists behind visible reality (look at usual things with unusual eyes). This is, for me, design, and is expressed by sketching. “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” writes René Magritte by way of one of his paintings representing a pipe. Even in design, looking behind the pipe, perhaps there is another thing."
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Vico Magistretti
Vico Magistretti (October 6, 1920 – September 19, 2006) was an Italian industrial designer, known as a furniture designer and architect.
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