Filo Table

Overview

Filo Table is a table lamp by Andrea Anastasio. The project begins by breaking apart the parts that make up a lamp, namely light source, decoration and electrical cable, and putting them back together as an artistic work. The lamp gives semi-diffused light with a direct downward component.

Construction

A metal base and rod support the cable and the decorations. The round electrical cable is covered with coloured fabric, and the switch on the cable and the plug are black. Two decorative elements are hand-blown glass made without a mould, and the cone that holds the retrofit LED bulb is porcelain formed in a mould.

Specifications

• Height: 58.5 cm
• Materials: porcelain, textile cable, blown glass, metal
• Light source: LED retrofit bulb included, G9, 4 W, 3000 K, 400 lm, on-off switch
• Net weight: 4.2 kg

A lamp taken apart and put back together

Filo starts from the individual parts of a lamp: the light source, the decoration and the electrical cable. Anastasio reduces them to a simplified vocabulary and reassembles them as an artistic piece, so the cable enters an unexpected dialogue with the glass and the diffuser.

Glass shaped as it is worked

The glass elements are hand-crafted and blown without a mould, so their shapes and decorations are given to each piece during processing. There are five colour versions of the table lamp, and they differ in the cable colour, in the shapes and colour of the glass elements and in the colour of the base.