3D‑printed table lamp composed of multiple colored elements nested together, topped with a milky glass cone.
Some projects are born of a brief: a specific request that addresses a defined set of needs. They make things comfortable and secure. They create structure. Other projects come from a different place. At first, they give you the impression of freedom, but too much freedom feels like an uncharted universe you don’t know how to explore. In these cases, I start searching inward and bring fragments of visions, thoughts, and memories.
This is how these lamps take shape. They emerge from reconnections: glimpses of Giorgio Morandi’s paintings and compositions; Gehry’s houses made of independent elements; fragments of industrial architecture lost in a landscape; visions of houses I want to design; Enzo Mari’s bread basket; Luigi Ghirri’s photographs; Fukasawa’s simplicity…
All this while creating an object that sits lightly into this world: a vessel without a given story, filled by the imagination each person chooses to pour into it.
A project by
Sergio Mannino/Sergio Mannino Studio
Sergio Mannino is an architect and designer trained in Italy, where he studied and worked with Ettore Sottsass and Remo Buti. His practice is grounded in Italian design culture and shaped by a long engagement with architecture, furniture, and spatial identity.
After moving to New York in 2001, he presented a solo exhibition of furniture and works on paper at the Memphis‑Postdesign Gallery in Milan and later led the U.S. branch of Studio 63, contributing to the global retail landscape of major fashion brands.
In 2008, he founded his own studio, now operating internationally across retail, residential, branding, and furniture design. His work explores space as cultural expression and is widely published in Europe, China, and the United States.