FOSCARINI JAMAICA DESIGN BY MARC SADLER
FOSCARINI JAMAICA DESIGN BY MARC SADLER
The suspension lamp Jamaica infuses a feeling of lightness with its
soft suspended volume obtained by a sheet of paper covered by a thin layer of
polymer, without enveloping it completely but instead attached at the bottom to
the housing of the light source, free to illuminate the underlying surface
directly.
Materials - Colour
Polymer covered paper - White
http://www.foscarini.com/en/products/suspension/jamaica.html
MARC SADLER
French citizen born
in Austria, Marc Sadler currently lives in Milan.
Experimentation with
plastics has often formed a key part of his acivity. He already showed a strong
curiosity for the subject choosing it for his thesis at ENSAD in Paris.
Citizen of the world
(he has lived and worked for many years in Europe, North America and Asia), he
is a consultant for companies in the fields of home furnishings, large and
small household appliances, lighting, technically advanced products, and sports.
At the beginning of
the seventies, he perfect the first ski-boot in thermo plastic material
completely recyclable, subsequently commercialised by the Italian firm Caber
(later known as Lotto). he quickly gains the responsibility of the entire
collections and starts a long and fruitful collaboration which led to the
patenting of the ski-boot with a symmetric shell, which was for many years the
most widely-sold ski-boot in the world.
This is the origin
of his specialisation as a sports designer, which led to close collaboration
with the most important multinational sport companies in the United States,
Asia, and Europe, both in the sport shoes and in other sport fields: ski,
tennis raquets, golf clubs, etc. Working in this sector, which has often
pioneered research into new materials and techniques, provided the experience
to enable him to bring innovation to more traditional areas where is set a
concept of design as pure aesthetic shape.
Awarded with the
Compasso d’Oro ADI (Industrial Design association) for the lamps Drop (Flos,
1994), Tite and Mite (Foscarini, 2001) and the bookshelf Big (Caimi Brevetti,
2008), his work has won many international design awards over the years.
His motorcyclist’s
back protector designed for Dainese is now housed in the permanent collection
of design at the MOMA in New York and the lamp Mite (Foscarini) is part
of the design collection of the Beaubourg in Paris.
Despite his
reputation as a technical designer, Marc Sadler has a strong feeling for
painting and drawing, finding it so emotionally absorbing as to consider it his
real passion.
