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Suspend your Disbelief with Nuée
Foscarini’s Nuée suspension lamp doesn’t resemble a light fixture so much as a transcendent powder puff, a luminous numinous cloud, a fairy tale marshmallow or mushroom from a land that transforms even the earthiest of objects into an ineffable and un-graspable shade of white.
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Designed by the always versatile Marc Sadler, Nuée shows its transcendence in the way it bears up to elaborate comparison. Close scrutiny would seem to always end up in a perplexed kind of musing: “What exactly is that.”
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Foscarini likes to remind us of its sculptural quality, and of the importance of its aspect when un-illuminated: “Creating light fixtures that are just as impactful off as they are on has been at the core of Foscarini’s design ethos since the beginning – highly functional yet aesthetically pleasing as stand-alone objects.”
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With its billowing, befuddling fabric shade, Nuée certainly stands alone. And, yes, its tactile and visual appeal is every bit as potent when it’s off.
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The white PBC material that constitutes the diffuser is a flexible, form-able fabric that welcomes subtle manipulations from users, changing its shape and consequently changing the way it projects light: “overlapping layers of a three-dimensional fabric can be modeled to create areas of chiaroscuro, which light shines through in a suggestive manner.”
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Yes, the uses of Nuée are certainly open to suggestion. Whether you see it as a low-slung moon come down to invade and enchant, or a billowing, cotton-candy like cloud, Nuée is certain to liven up your environs.
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Read more about Nuée and designer Sadler at Foscarini.
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