In June 1974 in Paris, the lampshade was designed
by Man Ray directly on a sheet of flat cardboard
and, together with other sketches of the base, a few
days later it became the lamp called ‘La lune sous le
chapeau’.
The light is an ‘objet trouvé’ as it re-evaluates basic
materials, low technology, formal simplicity.
An apparently anonymous, anti-design lamp,
provocative with a strong poetic content: the simplest
lampshade supported by the most elementary of
bases.
This model faithfully reproduces, even in the spirit,
the original design.