Ilia Sergeevich Potemine

Ilia Sergeevich Potemine is Russian. Better yet: Italian-Russian. Agent with a double accent. You might think he's a designer. He's a pilot. The sky is his domain, the sun a revolutionary celestial body, and the earth a temporal stopover, just long enough to design dazzling light fixtures conceived in the midst of a mainstream revolution. Retrospective reference: for a fleeting moment, you think of Howard Hughes. Potemine has already taken flight. Neither god nor master. Just Achille Castiglioni, radical enough to invent the lights of tomorrow when the future and space propelled creation into the cosmos. He was the genius of the lamp. Ilia Potemine, just 30 years old, is a new one. His ISP lamp is its absolute and unclassifiable manifesto.

Another lamp. Yes, but this one resembles nothing we've ever seen. Designed in opposition to the standardized artifacts that clutter our era, the Potemine lamp is a high-flying torch, imagined as a relay baton between initiates and enlightened minds. Evoking a Nautilus, a HAL, and an ark of light, the ISP lamp is already a mythology, a fiat-lux deliberately stripped of the orthodox lamp tradition.