Bib Luz Libro, 1986

 

Producer: Bd Barcelona Design

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This lamp was designed to provide optimum lighting for bookshops. The general problem was that the browser tends to stand in his own light while surveying the shelves. If intermediate lights are used, the lower shelves are left in the shade; the best solution is to use light points located in the higher section but angled so as to illuminate the spines of the books on the lowest shelves. The resulting lamp, in a characteristic exercise of Tusquetian figurativismo, hides the transformer in a book which also serves to provide support. It can adapt to just about any position and blends in among the books, since the projecting arm is subtle, barely noticeable. The minuscule lamp at the tip is adjustable.

    This lamp originated as a complement for the Talaya shelves. Other designs making use of the dichroic lamp fixed to the end of a thin arm have also derived from this, although the supports are different: a semi-sphere for application as a wall or desk lamp, and a sphere support equipped with two lamps for a ceiling light over a table. In 1998, the German designer Ingo Mauer launched a homage-version named Oskar.