Alessandro Mendini’s “Lampada White Gold” is the sister to its “Yellow Gold” counterpart, created in 2002 as part of an exhibition entitled “Furniture of Man”. In this collection, Mendini created the portrait of contemporary man with a series of nine elements: a face, a glove, an shoe, an evening jacket, a neoclassical teacup, a bedside lamp, a manager’s briefcase, a Borsalino hat and a star. Emblematic of the designer’s ingenious and joyous spirit, the “Lampada” is at once a standalone object and the intimate companion to Mendini’s contemporary man.

“Over a period of approximately ten years I designed and created a series of nine figures in Bisazza gold mosaic tesserae. I called them Furniture for Man. They are all placed on parallelepiped bases made of rough galvanized sheet metal, serving as cabinets. These items of furniture feature nine elements which symbolize or describe contemporary man: his face, a glove, an elegant shoe, an evening jacket, a neoclassical teacup, a bedside lamp, a manager’s briefcase, a Borsalino hat and a star.” — Alessandro Mendini