eigruob | Nendo

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its iconic Bourgie table lamp, Italian plastic furniture specialist Kartell invited ten designers associated with the company to create tribute pieces for a special exhibition. Nendo decided to work with two of the lamp's most distinctive characteristics - its use of silhouettes and its transparency - rather than touching the original design itself. He created a new table lamp by inverting and rotating the Bourgie lamp's silhouette, so that when two of the new lamps are lined up together, the space between them forms the upside-down silhouette of the Bourgie lamp. This is the reason why he named the lamp 'Eigruob'.