In 2020, FontanaArte reintroduces the Re and Regina lamps first launched in 1968 and inspired by the game of chess with their sinuous shape. Re and Regina are the key characters of the chessboard with their profiles standing out clearly in the white light diffused by opalescent glass.
Re and Regina play in pairs alternating spheres, cylinders and rings of light. The lamps can be placed next to each other or in different spots in the same room and can be used as floor or table lamps. The dimmer allows the user to modulate the light making it a surreal element with different degrees of intensity: an element of representation that releases energy in space when the light is bright, abstract and restful when the light is soft and low.
The lamps were originally designed in 1968 by the Milanese artist Bobo Piccoli, who included them in a glorious collection that combines art and industrial production with the catalogue being the essence of a positive, assertive, creative aesthetic that brings the artistic imagination into living, conviviality, public and private spaces.
Re and Regina are inspired by the history of art, from Cosmè Tura to the Flemish interiors of Jan Van Eych to the conceptual imagery of Marcel Duchamp who plays chess as a lifestyle. Re and Regina are Cartesian axes of a universe that crosses ages and cultures.
In 2020 FontanaArte reintroduces these glass lamps as a sign of the expressive wealth contained in the great repertory of ideas that is the FontanaArte catalogue and, most importantly an homage to the talent of an artist who had a gift for calibrating the formal tension of a utilitarian object on a quest for unity among the arts.
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