Eva Table Lamp

Eva table lamp orig­i­nates from and builds on the inti­mate contact between light, shape and move­ment. Designed by Francesca Borelli in 2017, Eva is a metal table lamp that inves­ti­gates oppo­sites, hollow and solid, light and dark, taking them from theory into prac­tice. The inter­ac­tion between humans and objects takes on a funda­men­tal signif­i­cance, adding a playful and contin­u­ally surpris­ing element to the light.

The body of the object is a ball contain­ing the LED light source; it is open on one side and stands on a slim cylin­dri­cal base. The inside of the ball is concealed by a surface that almost perfectly completes it, closing it like a sphere that recom­poses itself, apart from a circle, a lumi­nous light spiral that recalls the phenom­e­non of an eclipse. As this circu­lar surface moves towards the inte­rior or exte­rior of the ball, it allows differ­ent amounts of light to pass through, creat­ing inti­mate, suffuse atmos­pheres, and reveal­ing glimpses of the fine gold leaf walls inside the Eva lamp with varying degrees of clarity.

The design is avail­able in black version with gold inte­rior, time­less colors that recall the moon and the astro­nom­i­cal phenom­ena that conceal it.