Aeros, Light between Byzantium and Fibonacci

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19 maggio 2022 di Luigi Luca Borrelli
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TERENZI SRL was the protagonist in the 2000s of numerous projects in the field of lighting: these have invested a transversal idea of Design and include different natures and styles.

One of the most aesthetically refined concerns the Aeros suspension lamp by Targetti Poulsen, a refined combination of “grace” and technicality.

The British industrial designer Ross Lovegrove wanted to create an ethereal object that would give a sense of agility despite its large size, an undoubtedly arduous challenge.

Aeros was conceived with two parts in anodized aluminum: joined together gave a curvilinear design, perforated they made an elaborate mesh of contiguous circular embroideries. Inspired by nature, the motif of the surface texture, however, also contained references to ancient Byzantine decorations, a civilization that considered itself the sole heir of the Roman Empire until the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The historical-humanistic factor is also combined in appearance with the logical-scientific one, as the physiognomy is related to the numerical sequence of Leonardo Fibonacci of 1202 linked to the logarithmic spiral. This numerical succession, exhibited in Liber abbaci by the Pisan mathematician, provides that each number is the sum of the previous two, except 0 and 1, the first two. So let us talk about Organic Design and a Design attracted by fractals, pivoting on nature and on the numerical ratios that regulate it. This structure characterizes the propagation of light through a horizontal emission; this is diffused towards the bottom and suffused towards the top and also the characteristic shadows are projected by the aluminum lace which reproduces the shapes we were talking about.

This is how a lamp has within itself multiple symbols and meanings studied in detail that our inattentive eyes often tend not to grasp.

Specifically, TERENZI SRL was asked between 2007 and 2009 to engineer, prototype and produce Aeros. Aluminum, a material indicated and chosen by Lovegrove for its lightness, was worked through the drawing, shearing, cutting and bending phases, before being anodized to obtain a Golden Sand color, not without problems and experimentation, while the circular structure on the other hand, it was obtained by joining the lower and upper parts obtained from the mold. The lamp represented one of the most complex projects managed by TERENZI SRL, so much so that the design and construction of the mold, subsequent industrialization and prototyping had been rejected by other companies precisely due to executive difficulties.

This lamp arouses a sense of fluctuation and the apparent suspension stage in an indefinite space and time - precisely due to the mode of propagation of light mentioned above - gives it a "mystical" dimension. On the other hand, the Greek word aéros means air.

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