Catellani & Smith

Catellani & Smith Ago For only 218,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Albero Della Luce from 5.550,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Atman from 1.159,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs
Catellani & Smith Bella parete from 247,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Bella terra from 431,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Berlino 90 For only 297,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs
Catellani & Smith Boh from 472,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Bonsai table from 917,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Caio from 404,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs
Catellani & Smith Cartaflex 1 from 72,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Cartaflex 2 from 101,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Cartaflex 3 from 129,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs
Catellani & Smith Christe Eleison from 534,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Ciclocina tavolo from 332,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs	Catellani & Smith Ciclocina terra from 479,00 € incl. 19% tax plus shipping costs

Established in 1989 by Enzo Catellani, Catellani & Smith is an Italian company producing different types
of lighting equipment: table, standing, wall or ceiling lamps.
It also makes special customised light fittings for installation in large indoor and outdoor areas.
The plant is housed in an old re-structured mill in North Italy - an original environment in keeping
with the company’s philosophy.
These surroundings set Catellani & Smith well apart from the usual industrial models
and serve as a backdrop to the days when production meant using your brains and hands,
with all the meaning, magic and enthusiasm that handmade objects still convey.
This is a design concept that goes beyond the use of merely attractive, at times even ironical shapes,
but is actually a search for the quality of light.
Lamps with snaky twists of transformable, flexible pipes that spread a soft yet intense glow.
Luci d’Oro, whose gilded surfaces reflect warm, sunny light.
Stchu-moon, in which hand-crafting produces an irregular surface, so that no two pieces are identical.
All these objects are eye catching, have no fear of shadows, but instead take full advantage
of shapes to create an interesting play of light with plenty of contrasts.
After only a few years, by means of a simple but widespread organisation, Catellani & Smith’s image
is now receiving good exposure through consolidated distribution channels in many areas including:
Europe, USA, South America, Israel, Thailand and Hong Kong.
Furthermore, the recent installations at the Mandarin Hotel of Hong Kong, at the Palais Wilson in Geneva
and at the outdoor areas in Rue des Chartreux a Bruxelles, at Batllo House – Gaudì in Barcelona,
Museo della Cartografia di Stato/Fontana di Trevi – Roma, are of particular interest.

When I create a new lamp, I always start off with a prototype; my laboratory is a workshop where I continually accumulate materials, components and objects of all different kinds; and this is where everything is born…I assemble, weld, bend, shape… I need to feel the materials, to see how they play with light. In this initial stage there is no real design, the idea must take shape immediately, becoming an object. Only at this point do I move on to the traditional design phase: feasibility, technical characteristics and much more; it’s an idea of light, and the desire to tell about it, which guides me through
the construction. I believe that this process can be felt in products by Catellani & Smith A large part of my production is made up by pieces that require a great amount of craftsmanship, bringing to mind the Out Collection, the Stchu-moon and the Luce d’Oro, in which no two pieces
are perfectly alike. It’s the hand of the craftsman that builds them, his manual work that creates the imperfection, making it a truly unique object; even the Turciù needs manual intervention in order to exist, and it must be given a shape, your shape.
Enzo Catellani

2004/2005
Post Krisi,
a collection that opens a new chapter in my production.
Most importantly, it has two new elements: for the first time, with Post Krisi, I have added colour or rather I have brought it to the forefront. Lamps, hand-painted with pure primary colours; lamps with two sides where light interacts simultaneously with colour and shape creating an interplay of transparency and contrasts. The shape, an element that has always had an all-important role in my collections,
once again imprisons the light, moulding the shadows, but this time the effect is more pronounced: the bowl, in fact, is a deliberate mingling of the elasticity and robust transparency of the glass cloth, which, by simple movements, allows variations in shape, producing intriguing and suggestive shadows on the wall, the effect of which is enhanced by the fringing; much like a piece of ripped cloth.
Extremely resistant lamps, but with a precarious look, they project us into a fantastic world, with an atmosphere vaguely similar to that created by Japanese paper lamps.
Coloured lights that draw shadows, lights with pure shapes and primary colours, glass paper, elastic glass, waterproof paper, ripped shreds with physical characteristics that contrast harmoniously with the pure, cold steel structure: almost as if by the hand of a child. I have used glass cloth to create transparency, leaving it pure and unpainted: the
effect is just as captivating; the weave of the cloth incorporated in the resin breaks up the light almost creating a reflection. Lamps to toy with, shapes to invent, patches of colour that transform into patterns of light. This collection, with its infinite combinations, has only one limitation: it is difficult to say no!
Enzo Catellani