A wired silhouette that naturally evokes a praying mantis in weightlessness, the Mantis floor lamp has been structurally tweaked and improved just as Schottlander envisioned in his time.‎ Playing on the tension between balance and imbalance, still composed of a long steel rod topped by a black shade pivoting on a ball joint, resting on its round base, the BS8 L floor lamp has a new base and arm, swapping its original system of rack and counterweight for an ingenious "squaring of the circle" with suggestive graphics and voids.‎A true sculpture now adjustable by a dial, gaining a wide versatility of use, the Mantis BS8 lamp gives back to Bernard what belonged to Schottlander.‎TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS220-240V – 15WCL II – IP20 – E14 ( bulb not supplied)Switch : yes, on the cableCable : 2 mMaterials: steelAs admirer of Alexander Calder, in 1951 Schottlander created the Mantis series of lamps.‎ Movement is intrinsic to all of Schottlander’s work: an artist, an engineer and in no small measure a handyman, he devised a clever system of counterweights combined with a series of strong, and flexible metal bars.‎ The shade also is unique of its kind.‎ Like an acrobat suspended in mid-air, it is made from aluminium using spinning and chasing techniques that are a part of the metalworker’s inventory of skills, but to which he has brought his sculptor’s eye to create a helical movement in which the symmetrical and the asymmetrical are in opposition.‎ His lights, with their eternal play between balance and imbalance, reveal some of the secrets of what we mean by ‘solid’ and ‘empty’.‎ And like his idol’s mobiles they appear to defy the laws of gravity.‎ The essential poetry of the object is an invitation to enter a dream world of the most judiciously balanced elegance.‎.‎.‎