Queen
Collection of lamps for
Linea Zero
2018
Queen is an elegant icon lamp that fits for a Queen. Queen stands out with its majestic and luxurious shape, serving as the visual centrepiece of any room.
Queen consists of 24 strips of Polilux™, Linea Zero’s exclusive material which provides the same brightness of a glass-made lamp, positioned in such a way that they partially overlap each other, giving a strongly expressive and glamour striped lighting effect.
In 2019, after the success of the lamp, with the integration of an IP 67 LED module, Queen represented the perfect opportunity to introduce the outdoor collection of the brand. The dimmable IP 67 outdoor LED module, powered by two batteries of 2500 mAh each, guarantees almost 7 hours of functioning at maximum power. Moreover, you can set the amount of power through a remote control which can also manage the ignition time. The battery is rechargeable thanks to an induction base powered by a mini USB. Queen is the only outdoor design lamp that can provide all these characteristics.
Process
The Queen lamp is made of Polilux™, a very complex material that looks soft but must be used in the rigid field: it is a stretch sheet whose elasticity changes if stretched and put into tension. Furthermore, the Client asked Elena Trevisan to create an object that could be assembled by the end-user in less than a minute and whose pieces could be sold inside a tiny box. This was, therefore, the real challenge: create a lamp that could be shipped disassembled in the future and entice the user to assemble it.
The first phase of the design process required the active participation of Elena Trevisan in the assembly of some lamps already in the Linea zero collection to become familiar with the tensional characteristics of the material.
Once Queen was designed, prototyping was the crucial next stage. Several prototypes were made in the studio to finalise the number of Polilux™ strips that could correctly express the imagined shape and keep it.