dandelion floor lamp
Design Richard Hutten,
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aluminum,steel
"Dandelion is a light and bright floor lamp in a modern design. It has been designed in 2004 by the designer Richard Hutten for the company Moooi. Dandelion resembles a dandelion with its round shape and the numerous small ramifications.The extraordinary design plays with its round shapes and with light and shadow. The light coming from the inside is broken on the individual branches that can be recognised from the outside by their silhouettes.The Dandelion floor lamp is only suitable for indoor use. It consists of powder-coated aluminium and steel."
800 w | 800 d | 1700 h
Richard G.J.Hutten is a Dutch designer.Hutten started his own design studio in 1991 in Rotterdam after graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven.Hutten's work is part of the permanent collections of the Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam,the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein,and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Philippe Starck used some of Huttens designs for the interiors of the Delano Hotel Miami and the Mondrian Hotel Los Angeles.His work has also been exhibited in Milan,Cologne,Paris,London,Berlin,Weimar,Toronto,Ghent, Verona,Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Utrecht,Den Bosch,Breda,New York,Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bremen,Montreal,Tokyo,Osaka,Stuttgart and San Francisco.
Founded in 2001 by complementing personalities Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers, Moooi is named after the native Dutch word for “beautiful”. According to the company, “the third ‘o’ in the brand name stands for an extra value in terms of beauty & uniqueness.” In additon to Wanders’ work, Moooi has produced work from Bertjan Pot, Maarten Baas, Ross Lovegrove and Studio Job. Ultimately, Wanders is responsible for the overall design selection process.