kite wall lamp

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kite wall lamp

Design Marc Sadler, 2003
Stainless steel, fiberglass, carbon
Made in Italy by Foscarini

As a classic style wall lamp, the Kite wall lamp offers unique yet stylish features. The wall version of the Giga lite and Mega Kite, Kite also features a fiberglass diffuser with either a yellow Kevlar® or black carbon thread diffuser. A beautiful collection for any public or private setting.

A designer, Marc Sadler has worked a long time in the sports sector, where he's experimented with new materials and innovative production processes. He has also worked successfully in furnishing and consumer products.

The Kite family consists of suspension, wall and floor lamps.

mini-kite: 7.25" w | 4.75" d | 8.25" h
requires 1x40W E12 candelabra type G16,5 frosted incandescent or 1x8w E12 candelabra CFL

large kite: 10.6" w| 6.3" d | 16.5" h
requires 3x40W E12 candelabra type G16,5 frosted incandescents or 1x24W 2G11 type T5 fluorescent

mini-kite: $422.00 + free shipping in the continental U.S.
(usually ships in 7 days)

Riccardo Olivieri set up Foscarini Spa in Murano in 1981. Two years later, they debuted their catalog, with lamps from Carlo Urbinati and Allesandro Vecchiato, who would become the company’s managers by 1988. Eventually these new owners would move the company off the island and into Venice, as well as transition Foscarini from a glassworks shop to a major design competitor. They had already begun working with external designers in 1985, but their first success came in 1990 with Rodolfo Dordoni’s “Lumiere.” Most all lighting projects were made of glass until 1993, at which point the Havana lamp primarily used polyethylene, making it lighter, more cost-effective, and able to be used indoors and outdoors. It now resides in the MoMA in New York. Other successful lamps would come to define the company, such as the “Mite & Tite” series by Marc Sadler in 2000 (which earned a Compasso d’oro), Patricia Urquiola’s 2005 “Caboche,” and Marc Sadler’s signature lamp "Twiggy."