Nemo

601

Very functional and "very designed" is 601 by Franco Albini, who conceived the item in 1958. The lamp's linear diffuser is the paradigm of the master's work. Working as a structural and technical part at the same time, the diffuser is in fact a folded she

et in aluminium that becomes surprisingly expressive through its function. The rest of the piece is astonishingly simple and lives out of the base-stem structure, painted dark with epoxy resin and the metacrylate bridge that lets the light seep through th

e back of the diffuser.