Carlotta de Bevilacqua: Human Light for Artemide

Empatia: glass that glows

Her most touched lamp is Empatia, designed with Paola di Arianello. A hand-blown glass diffuser fades from clear to frosted, and a transparent light pipe carries the LED’s glow to a white plate that bounces it back through the glass. It won the iF Product Design Award and the Wallpaper* Design Award in 2014, and it comes as the table lamp, the pendant and the wall and ceiling light.

“A pioneer of LED design at Artemide, she shaped its “Human Light” philosophy: light that serves people’s well-being and the planet.”

LoftModern, about the designer

Rings, ellipses and mirrors

Copernico opens into nine concentric ellipses laser-cut from one aluminum plate and carries 384 LEDs; it took a Red Dot Design Award in 2011 and the Compasso d’Oro ADI in 2014. Altrove wraps a mirror stainless steel frame around prismatic diffusers (there is a wall and ceiling version too), and Eclittica is a slim ring built on flexible printed LED circuit boards, with a desk version.

Light you can move, and light you can color

Mimesi is a 76 in. floor lamp in polished recycled aluminum, Yang mixes red, green and blue projectors into colored light, and Come Together runs up to 16 hours on its internal battery, a sequel to Artemide’s 1999 portable LED lamp Sui, according to our listing.