Key facts

Product:: MANTIS | BS2 BL
Family:: MANTIS
Manufacturer:: DCW éditions >
Designer:: Bernard Schottlander >
Order number:: BS2 BL
Architonic ID:: 1224073
Country:: France
Designed:: 1951
Launched:: 2013

Manufacturer groups :: Interior lighting-Wall lights >
Groups:: Interior lighting-Wall lights >

Product description

Material:
Steel, aluminium, brass

Dimensions:
Wall to shade 1500 mm | Arms width 470 mm | Height 900 mm | Rotation 180°

Black mat | Satin nickel

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Concept

As admirer of Alexander Calder, in 1951 Schottlander created the “MANTIS” series of lamps.
Movement is intrinsic to all of Schottlander’s work : an artist, an engineer and in no small measure a handyman, he devised a clever system of counterweights combined with a series of strong and flexible metal bars.

The shade also is unique of its kind. Like an acrobat suspended in mid-air, it is made from aluminium using spinning and chasing techniques that are a part of the metalworker’s inventory of skills, but to which he has brought his sculptor’s eye to create a helical movement in which the symmetrical and the asymmetrical are in opposition.

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