As 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 midair, 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.

MATERIALS
Steel

COLORS
Frame black/grey-green, Shade black

DIMENSIONS
Base diameter D74 cm | Height 170 cm maximum | Rotation 360° | Arm 4 positions – 20°

CLII – E14 – ESL 11W