Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp
Lighting a Space
A course by Fabien Cappello , Product and Furniture Designer
About the video: Lighting a Space
Overview
“In this lesson, we will look at different ways to light space, and I will show you some examples of remarkable lamp design to illustrate how light works and what functions it serves, depending on the context.”
In this video lesson Fabien Cappello addresses the topic: Lighting a Space, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp. Light up your home by creating a versatile lighting accessory through resourceful woodworking techniques..
Partial transcription of the video
“Lighting a Space In this lesson, I want to show you three remarkable examples of lighting design. And last but not least, we will see how we can spot on light onto an object to create a shade with the lamp designed by Gae Aulenti. In 1963, Bruno Munari designed a lamp for a, at the time, small company called Danese. Munari had seen some fisherman's trap made of a metal structure and some knotted net. He reproduced the construction using simple metal rings and white nylon stockings. The woven nylon provide a perfect shade for a light source. It filters and soften the light coming out of the ...”
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Course summary for: Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking

Fabien Cappello
A course by Fabien Cappello
Fabien Cappello is a French designer based in Guadalajara, Mexico. After studying industrial design at the University of Art and Design in Switzerland, he was awarded the IKEA Scholarship and pursued a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London.
After his studies, he did various design residencies around the world–in Korea, Japan, Portugal, and Italy. Throughout his career, he has developed an eclectic style inspired by the places he has lived in. His work has been exhibited in museums like Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and Archivo Gallery in Mexico City.
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