Italy

Dot is a family of pendant lamps designed to make luminaires look like disks of light. Their design neatly combines formal rigour and the most advanced mechanical and lighting technologies.

Dot consists of two parallel discs of different sizes, connected by a thin metal tube. The smaller, lower body is made of turned aluminium and contains a ring of LEDs optically designed to project a large amount of light onto the upper, lacquered aluminium reflector disc.

The high-power light source generates an amount of heat that the lower disc alone is unable to dissipate, thus risking greatly reducing the life of the LEDs. The problem has been solved thanks to a special element acting as a heat pipe (used in the aerospace industry) inserted in the thin tube connecting the discs. Its function is to thermally connect the LED circuit to a heat sink housed on top of the upper disc. This generates a virtuous circle that moves heat away from the LEDs area and allows them to work at their best.

Lumina, a lighting products manufacturer whose main strengths are construction capability and quality control at the service of simple and technological lamps, grew out of the vision of Tommaso Cimini.

When he set up the company in Sedriano (a small town in the Milan area) in 1980, he already had one principle very clear in his mind: it is function that generates form.

With his ingenuity, innate capacity to innovate and deep knowledge of materials, Tommaso Cimini was able, in the mid ‘70s, to retool the machines in his workshops to create the Daphine, a lamp that became a timeless icon of Italian design.