Villa Di Serio, Bergamo, Italy
“My past and what I built so far are part of me, but Enzo Catellani was born today, with the desire to travel backwards to rediscover the primal instinct of doing, for the pleasure of creating,” says Enzo Catellani.
The new U. lamp is one of the latest lighting projects designed by Italian lighting designer Enzo Catellani and manufactured by Catellani & Smith that demonstrates itself in its purest, most authentic form to all those who observe it.
U.lamp’s design has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
U.lamp has been designed by Enzo Catellani and comes in four different models: two-floor versions, U. F Up and U. F Flex, and two wall versions, U. W Flex and U. W, all available in black or white finishes and with low voltage COB LED light source.
U. F Up is a floor lamp with simple, almost minimal lines. The semi-cylindrical screen is an innovative, patent-pending heatsink that hosts a high-efficiency COB LED and it is covered with gold-colored leaf inside.
And here is where something magical happens: the silhouette of a dancer appears in the center of the “U” that gives the lamp its shape and its name.
The steel silhouette is fitted with a magnet at the bottom and can be positioned anywhere on the metal plate on the screen.
The floor lamp in the line is called U. F Flex and it too features a slightly smaller screen than that of the Up lamp.
The distinguishing feature of this version is the directional brass flex and the 350° rotating screen, which enables the light to be pointed wherever it is required.
The U. W Flex wall lamp is also characterized by the flex located at the top of a rectangular base, and by the distinctive U that holds the COB LED light source, creating a bright glow.
Finally, the other wall version, the U. W, sits on a circular base and features a joint that enables the semi-cylindrical screen to rotate, designing a beam of light that diffuses on the wall.
Project: U. lamp
Designers: Enzo Catellani, Catellani & Smith Srl
Manufacturer: Catellani & Smith Srl
