Floor Lamp MANTIS BS8 L Black DCW EDITIONS

A great admirer of Alexander Calder, in 1951 Bernard Schottlander created a series of lamps and luminaires called MANTIS. Playing on the tension between balance and imbalance, his luminaires, like mobiles, seem to defy the laws of gravity. The Mantis collection is now published by DCW éditions. With its wiry silhouette naturally reminiscent of a weightless praying mantis, the Mantis floor lamp has been structurally modified and improved by DCW as envisaged by Schottlander in his day. The Mantis BS8 L floor lamp plays on tension in balance and imbalance, composed of a long steel rod topped by its black shade pivoting on a ball joint and resting on its round base. The DCW floor lamp changes its base, swapping its original rack-and-weights system for an ingenious squaring of the circle with suggestive graphics and voids.  A real sculpture that can be adjusted by means of a knob, the Mantis BS8 L floor lamp gains a wide wheel of modularity through its versatility of use.