Ninho Floor Lamp By Mameluca

Ninho floor lamp by MamelucaMaterial: maçaranduba, african mahogany, fayaDimensions: D 220x W 100 x H 190 cmAll our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wired for the USA for instance.In order to honor the Brazilian mix of races we have digged into the roots of our people since the colonization times. The reality of our racial history has hugely surprised us. Nowadays, on the average, only 10% have Brazilian Indian ancestry to 30% of African ancestry and 60% of European ancestry. Based on these data we created the lamp Ninho (Nest) that shows this very proportion in the Brazilian DNA by merging materials from each continent. “Only Cannibalism unites us”. Oswald de Andrade Anthropophagic Manifest (1928)."Our goal with Design is to tell stories, generating questions, emotions and discoveries through human senses. Contemporary design transcends basic survival needs and leads us to a poetic design of new information and experiences."The studio was launched in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After 10 years, it’s time to cross the Atlantic and explore the old world not only historically but the way the old has being reinvented everyday based on the needs of the new. We are still in a transitional atmosphere without a physical space, but full of expectations with the new horizon.