Giuseppe Bessero Belti is an Italian designer who lives and works in Paris. Perhaps the environment surrounding him was the reason why Experimenta, his project, finds inspiration in an object with a hundreds of years history: the oil lamp. Experimenta is a vase that gives a new interpretation of it. It consists of a cylindrical container for the water, obtained from a collection of old lamps glass, a ring and a series of adapters which allow the fixing of the glass to the jar. Belti reflects on scientific evolutions that have affected this type of lamps and the standardization of forms that industrial development has brought to the object, increasingly separating what was mass-produced from what was of a work of craftsmanship. Today the attention of design has undergone a turnaround, going to choose to satisfy the unique needs of new consumers, rediscovering the craft as an expression of quality if not of artistic content. Thus, with a ready-made operation, where the nostalgia for the past goes along with the enthusiasm for present technology such as 3D printing, the designer gave the oil lamps a new birth: symbolized by the flame that turns into a flower and the fuel in the water that keeps it alive. An object whose poetry of the intentions is reflected in the aesthetics of the final result.
