Executed in 2014 in an edition of 12. The present work is number 3 from the edition. Born in Florence in 1938, Andrea Branzi co-founded the Italian avant-garde architecture and design group Archizoom Associati in 1966 with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, and Massimo Morozzi. Reacting against modernist architecture and opting for a playful and imaginative, science-fiction-like approach, Branzi and co. became an integral part of counterculture design. During the 1980s he was invited to join the Milan-based Memphis Group by Ettore Sottsass where he worked alongside Nathalie du Pasquier and Michael Graves. Branzi, like his peers, didn’t seek to add form to function but rather function to form. His Lamp, 2014, made of rice paper and bamboo, is a beautiful cylindrical form that appears to float upwardly into the ether.