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During Milan Design Week 2016, industrial lighting designer Ingo Maurer, exhibited in a Milan former church – San Paolo Converso church – his new lighting design collection: “Keep Balance”, “ Ru Ku Ku” and “Mickey’s Manifesto”. The historic former church, currently being used as the studio for architecture form CLS architetti became the stage for the exhibition where a range of Maurer’s known humorous industrial lighting collection pieces were displayed around the main space.
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Like a pair of balances, Ru Ku Ku poises a clear bulb and a large egg at the two ends of a metal rod. the table lamp has a height of 60 cm and is rotatable through 360°. a joint in the shape of a ring allows adjusting the angle of the horizontal rod. the clear bulb is partly covered with a thin white silicone shade.
Keep balance is the LED version and a design variation of Ru Ku Ku. the piece is poised on a black and white body on and a flat white disk at the two ends of a metal rod. the table lamp has a height of 60 cm and is rotatable through 360°, with a joint in the shape of a ring allows adjusting the angle of the horizontal rod.
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Mickey’s Manifesto is a fiber optic light dedicated to the classic disney character. when asked to create a piece with figures from the disney range, ingo maurer immediately settled on one of the original disney characters: mickey mouse. set on a black polished corian plate with four black, round legs, groups of mickey mouse figurines, plastic in red, white and black are set together highlighted by individual fiber optic strands.
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Ingo Maurer does not only intervene at the Milan Design Week 2016 with the event – exposure in the space of San Paolo Converso, but he also signed a lighting project at the Urban Scale illuminating the Velasca Tower, the original skyscraper designed by BBPR that defines the skyline of Milan.
