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Trap Light Floor Lamp by Gionata Gatto & Mike Thompson for Transnatural, 2015
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Exceptional Contemporary Design

Trap Light proposes a radical new approach to lighting design. By utilizing photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light, Trap Light, designed by Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson, recycles waste energy back into light. Photoluminescence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is gradually released as light. Using the Murano glass blowing technique, this pigment is embedded into the glass body of the lamp, giving each Trap Light a unique pattern and glow. A thirty minutes ‘charge’ of light from a traditional incandescent or LED light provides a few hours of ambient lighting. To be used indoors or outdoors. 

Designer Gionata Gatto
Maker Transnatural Label
Design Period From 2000
Year of Production 2015
Production Period 2010 to Present
Country of Manufacture Netherlands
Style Contemporary
Detailed Condition New — This is a new (unused) item of contemporary design.
A professional electrician has confirmed this piece is in working order.
Plug Type European Plug (up to 250V)
Product Code ZIC-294987
Additional Information Made by Hand Open Edition
Materials Murano Glass
Color Blue, white, yellow
Width 18 cm 18 cm
Depth 18 cm 18 cm
Height 38 cm 38 cm
Weight Range Standard — Between 40kg and 80kg
Duties Notice Import duty is not included in the prices you see online. You may have to pay import duties upon receipt of your order.
* Please note that items made of Rosewood are subject to a special export process that may extend the delivery time an additional 2 to 4 weeks

Shipping & Delivery

Dealer Transnatural
Shipping Method Ground - 1 to 2 weeks
Ships from Netherlands
Duties Notice Import duty is not included in the prices you see online. You may have to pay import duties upon receipt of your order.
Returns Returns accepted within 14 days of delivery, except for Made-to-order items

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* Please note that items made of Rosewood are subject to a special export process that may extend the delivery time an additional 2 to 4 weeks

About the Designer

Gionata Gatto

Born in Venice, Italy in 1982, Gionata Gatto studied industrial design at the University of Architecture in Venice, earning his Bachelor’s degree in 2005. He went on to earn a Master’s degree in design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009. As of this writing, he is a doctoral candidate in design research at England’s Loughborough University. Gatto established Studio Gionata Gatto in Eindhoven in 2009; in 2014, he relocated to Rotterdam.

Gatto’s research-driven projects are connected by an ongoing investigation of the significance of everyday objects in an ever-changing world. His work is often narrative and experimental, delving into production processes and materials with an eye for sustainability and evolving technological and scientific advantages. He sees his design objects as contemporary artifacts. Describes his approach, he tells us, “The function of each object is designed as an experience whose content is revealed by the use. Modes of switching on and off, opening and closing, mirroring and reflecting, become revelatory actions crafted to surprise the user and stimulate his imagination.”

Gatto’s designs include self-initiated projects, commissions from design companies and other brands, and collaborations with universities, research institutes, and the like. Standout projects include: Trap Light (2011), a light collection made in collaboration with Mike Thompson that utilized photoluminescent pigments to capture and convert escaping light back into visible light; Agricola (2012), a product collection composed of local waste from fruit, vegetable, and cereal production that is designed to last approximately a decade before naturally biodegrading; (H)eat (2014), a thermal cooking instrument-slash-battery designed with Alessia Cadamuro; as well as Geomerce (2015), a research project made in collaboration with Giovanni Innella that transforms polluted land into a financial resource through the “mining” action of plants.

The designer’s work has been exhibited in galleries and at events worldwide, including Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Triennale di Milano, Maison&Objet, Sotheby’s, Tijdelijk Museum, and others. Since 2014, Gatto has lectured on the topic of future thinking and products at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and at Istituto Europeo di Design of Madrid.

About the Maker

Transnatural Label

Interdisciplinary and innovative, Transnatural Label produces thoughtful, beautiful objects that emerge from intelligent fusions of art, nature, and technology.

The Transnatural Label, based in Amsterdam since its 2012 foundation by Arjen Bangma, is the commercial branch of the Transnatural Art and Design Program. A multi-faceted platform, it envisions “a world where man, nature, and technology merge” in a manner conducive to ecological wealth. Working with a variety of international creators, studios, institutes, businesses, and development laboratories, it seeks to transcend traditional boundaries between nature and technology through a combination of art, speculative design, and emerging research. Arising from these aims, and in collaboration with experienced and innovative designers, the objects produced by the Transnatural Label offer thought-provoking explorations of light, material, nature, and decay.

The series of Transience mirrors, designed for the label by Lex Pott and David Derkson, offer a playful, geometric play on optics and the manner in which reflective material may disintegrate. The idea is rooted in the dark spots that appear on mirrors, which are caused by the silver layer slowly oxidizing under the influence of oxygen and water. Though this is ordinarily observed as the degradation of an object, Pott and Derkson explore and demonstrate the beautiful effects of this type of material transition of silver. Revealing different states of oxidation on the same surface, presented in neat, geometric planes, their mirrors reflect reality in beautifully sectioned areas of gold, amber, blue, and purple. By accelerating and manipulating a quality often regarded as a flaw as a means of artistic expression, each of these hand-made mirrors doubles in function to resemble an abstract tableau. This experimental approach to material is also evident in the Well Proven series of stools, by Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw. Observing that processing wood from planks to products incurs 50–80% of timber wastage during normal manufacture, the designers sought ways of incorporating waste shavings into design using bio-resin. A curious chemical reaction occurs when the two combine, expanding the mixture into a foam-like substance. This porridge-esque result is applied to the underside of the stool shell by hand, forming a strong and lightweight material, the irregular and exuberant textures supplying a satisfying contrast with the simple seat and turned legs. The Trap Light, produced for both indoor and outdoor use, demonstrates a similar approach to the re-use of resources. Devised by Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson, it proposes a radical new approach to lighting design. By utilizing photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light, it recycles waste energy back into light. Photoluminescence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is gradually released as light. Using the Murano glass blowing technique, this pigment is embedded into the glass body of the lamp, giving each Trap Light its own pattern and glow. Thirty minutes of charge from a traditional incandescent or LED light provides a few hours of ambient lighting.

Transnatural Art and Design routinely stages projects for international audiences, and has presented workshops, talks and events at a variety of venues, including MoMA New York and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The label’s designer-collaborators, as respected researchers and practitioners, have received accolades and have been exhibited widely. Pott was named the No. 1 Design Talent in the Netherlands by the newspaper de Volkskrant in 2015, and since 2011 Derkson has presented at Salone del Mobile in Milan. Van Aubel and Shaw’s work has been displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Design Museum, London, while Gatto has shown at Sotheby’s, London and Maison & Objet, Paris, and Thompson at MoMA NY and the Science Gallery, Dublin.

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