Alberto Gramegna

Alberto Gramegna is an architect and designer. He has collaborated with various architecture and interior design studios in Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul, and Zurich.

Throughout his professional journey, he focuses on environmental sustainability as an intrinsic component of the discipline itself. In his design project Ottolumi, his approach is reflected in the reuse of existing materials and objects.

Ottolumi is born from the reinterpretation of the traditional lampshade, stripping it of its exterior skin and highlighting the structural support of the lampshade itself. The original metal frame, now revealed, is formally reinterpreted with a network of cords that uncover new geometries already present in potential within the structure.

For the lamp bases, existing objects are used, which are reinterpreted to eventually become unique lamp supports. Thus, a brick worn by the sea, some billiard cues, or some bed legs are adapted to become lamp supports.