Venice, Italy
Born in Venice in 1972, he graduated in Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic. He took his first steps in the field of goldsmith design, later landing in Philippe Starck’s studio. During his Parisian experience he was fascinated by design capable of expressing traditional craftsmanship in a modern key. Back in Italy, he pursued these production logics, starting to collaborate with companies in which manual skill is a distinctive element of realization. A child of art, he comes from a family of antique dealers specializing in Venetian glass art. De Carlo is committed to elaborating the craft traditions he came into contact with through his personal creative universe. This gives rise to a mix of high culture and pop culture that offers a playful, sometimes disturbing vision of the contemporary world.
Lollipop
It will be presented during Venice Design Week 2023
Saturday October 7, 6:30 pm
RAIZES GALLERY
Archivi della Misericordia
Fondamenta Trapolin, 3549 Venice
Through simple forms and bold colours, Lollipop is a recall to the innocent and lucid sphere of childhood. Dressed in an eccentric and fun pop style, the lamp combines Multiforme’s artistic savoir-faire with the most recent lighting engineering.
A out of scale and enlightened lollipop, an optical game with a 60s mood which involves the artisanal preciousness of Murano glass.
Lollipop is a work that captures everyone’s attention with its lively and playful presence, which enchants thanks to the ancient beauty of artisanal glass-working, but which lets itself be admired with the simplicity of a child’s gaze.
Technique specifics:
Artistic glass disks of various dimensions, metallic frame with LED lighting.
Producer: Multiforme
“Light up your dreams”: this is the motto of Multiforme, which is embodied in the realisation of the lighting works: unique, handcrafted, precious. The production is divided between a glassworks and offices, that are located in the heart of the Veneto Lighting District, between Padua and Venice. Multiforme is not just a Murano chandelier factory.
Since 2009 they have been responding with tailor-made solutions to multiple decorative and custom lighting needs on an international scale, in public and private settings, historic buildings, hotels, restaurants and commercial establishments. The handcrafted soul of the lighting products is reinvented every time they start a new project, when they are confronted with technical requirements and customised requests from architects and designers. It is one of their strengths and they are very proud of it: they design and produce custom chandeliers providing solutions according to the customer’s wishes, even on a large scale and out of scale.
Participations to previous editions
VDW2022
LOB
Produces by Multiforme and exhibited at the Atelier Muranese.
(note: the archaic English word LOBBE stands for “spider,” in English lob means “hanging” so it falls perfect for a chandelier)
A spider descends from the ceiling, its multiple legs invading the space and illuminating it.
Slender limbs move through the air waiting for the next prey.
Transparencies and opacities mingle in eerie organic forms.
The aesthetics of nature become a tool for re-interpreting the Venetian chandelier.
MEET THE DESIGNER VDW2022: Tuesday 4 October 2022, 5pm
