Chapter 6 lamp and light (1)

--------------- lamp and light (1) --------------- After a long, long time, he told me that in fact, you don't know much about light. He probably meant my house with no lights.When night comes, there are many corners in the huge house that cannot be illuminated one by one, especially after the retirement of the Rosy Angelis floor lamp with a skirt-like lampshade, there is no successor, and a quarter of the room is into darkness.I'm afraid it's because I don't understand the arrangement and use of lamps, so I have to admit to him that as for the light—— Do you understand light? How should I put it? Fortunately, there are large and small windows on three sides of the four walls of the house, and the light is always sufficient, surrounded and embraced without reservation.There are many opportunities to stay at home during the day without having to turn on the lights, just like working under the sun, then dusk and then night, working all day, not doing serious things at night, and rarely staying up late, so the reality of lights I really don't care much about the functional requirements. Maybe it is because I have the light to my heart's content during the day, but I should stay in the darkness wantonly at night.

Staying in the dark, I'm afraid that saying this has given the light of Hong Kong-produced police and gangster films such as "PTU" or "Infernal Affairs".As a Hong Konger, I have to devote myself to supporting local creations, and even play roles to some extent: Even though I am not qualified to apply for the police (because of myopia), I am not qualified to be a gangster (because I am afraid of blood), but I admit that Hong Kong people seem to be more involved after entering the gang. Three-dimensional, sharper outlines, and more prominent characters; because of the dark side, everything is more dramatic and more realistic, Hong Kong is more outstanding, and Hong Kong people are more interesting.

Since you can be happy in the dark, it is easier to deal with light and understand lamps.Functions are not functions, not the most important calculations.A light bulb that hangs for half a day and is a little shaken can play its lonely and humble charm, and a bunch of thirty or forty light bulbs entwined can also have its expressive power of deliberate extravagance.When choosing a lamp, the first consideration is not whether it is bright enough, but whether it looks good or not. The beautiful lights are not on, but there seems to be light.Over the years, the International Lighting Fair in Milan, Italy, held every other year at the same time as the Furniture Fair, is very interesting to watch every time.Because to make the lights brighter, the venue is dark, no matter whether you are tired from walking or not, it is easy to get confused when you lie on the sofa, and the lights in front of you will look better.

Back then, Mr. Edison kneaded carbon rods into filaments, and stood out among many experimenters as the richest man shining brightly.Starting from a bare light bulb, over a hundred years has passed without haste, from simple to complex, and from complex to simple. The research on electric lighting technology has developed to a fairly mature stage.But when it comes to general household lighting, it is still a trend in style and shape, and it is not too revolutionary. If the bulb is broken, it is simply replaced with a new one, and the fluorescent tube is replaced with a new one.Then there is the flexibility and convenience of the switch to adjust the light direction. The real change is that many designers make use of the theme to give light a interpretation and a definition.

Is the light light or heavy? Is the light hard or soft? Is the light cold or warm? I can’t even answer the question. I’m afraid the answer is both.The table lamps and ground lamps on the side of the sofa on the desk at home are all Italian brands. They are all Italian brands—a kind of confidence and a guarantee, and they are really by my side for ten years or more, just like we actually have a sense of light. depends on.Light represents safety, security, and even prosperity and prosperity.Light, so abstract yet so real, yet so directly coexists with the image of home.Go home at night, turn on the lights, and the home will unfold in front of you. It’s a tidy sample house or a chaotic pile of pigs and dogs. There is something to look forward to when you see it, and forget it if you can’t see it outside the coverage of the light.Home is such an inclusive place.

I have seen so many lighting decorations, and new ones come out without replacing the old ones. Old glass, newly developed plastic, thick and thin metal folded fabrics are cut and collaged in turn, making the sun radiate into the shape of a flying saucer and spaceship, and making the soft moon into the shape of a flower and plant elf. In the same way, there are those who make the shape of the Salvation Cross into a peerless independent cylinder, which can be imagined, the successful ones are close to concise poems, the failed ones are like endless prose, and there are also ambitious movie scripts like majestic and magnificent, as long as they don’t Look directly at the light source, find a comfortable position and look at the familiar lamp at your home for ten minutes, and you will re-acquaint yourself with it, and decide again whether your love will continue unabated, or ask it to retire tomorrow.

The three lamps at home have always been like the patron saints around me, except for the floor lamp RosyAngelis, which was retired because the skirt was dirty and torn because I was embarrassed to see customers, it was designed by the fat man Philippe Starck and produced by FLOS; the other two lamps accompany me well , is Tolomeo with exposed steel wires on the industrial character steel arm, designed by Michele DeLucchi and Giancarlo Fassina, ARTEMIDE's long-term bestseller; one is the classic Constanza of LUCEPLAN, designed by Paolo Rizzatto, it is composed of a plastic sheet and a tube of aluminum strips connected to the base DIY, lightweight It is extremely simple, as if telling the world, I am the lamp, I am the light.

I have visited many friends around me, secretly made a small statistics, and found that most of the lighting used in the home is a good Italian brand, and when talking about lights and lights, everyone is very interested.As a teacher in school, he would carefully tell me about the 40-year history of ARTEMIDE, the leading Italian lighting leader, and he knows most of the product names. He seems to be more familiar with its founders Ernesto Gismondo and Sergio Mazza than salesmen. From one point to one line to one piece of light, it has taken care of thousands of households.In recent years, ARTEMIDE has taken "The Human Light" as the design and marketing direction, closely following the daily behaviors of humanistic care. No wonder he, as an ordinary consumer, was deeply moved.As for her who often flies around to be a fashion brand buyer, she loves another lighting brand, FOSCARINI.Because the design of FOSCARINI deliberately adopts fashionable and popular colors and materials, under the banner of "fashion lighting", the designers are all popular and cutting-edge in the industry, such as Marc Sadler, Particia Urquiola, Karim Rashid, etc., which have a bright edge.I have been listening to his enthusiasm and her excitement. Of course, I want to say a few words for my favorite brand FLOS: many classics of the predecessor master Achille Castiglioni, such as steel arm Arco, steel head SplugenBrau, light bulb team Tarazacum, transparent cone combination Fucsia, flying saucer Frisbi, oversized light bulb Lampadina... are all produced by FLOS; plus a series of romantic and funny three-legged skirt RosyAngelis by Philippe Starck, semi-transparent glass RomeoMoon, RomeoSoft, horned Ara, don't forget JasperMorrison's half-empty glutinous rice ball Glo-Ball, AntonioCitterio The circuit board chandelier Lastra, and MarcNewson's heavy all-aluminum super cool flashlight are all poetic lamps and lights that lead you and me to wander and imagine.