Mantis BS8

Bernard Schottlander

The Mantis floor lamp, a wired silhouette naturally evoking a mantis-religious in weightlessness, has just been structurally modified and improved by DCW éditions as Schottlander had envisaged in his time.

Playing on the tension between balance and imbalance, still composed of a long steel rod topped by its black shade pivoting on a ball joint, placed on its round base, the BS8 floor lamp changes its base, its leg, by swapping its original rack-and-weights system for an ingenious squaring of the circle with suggestive graphics and voids.
A true sculpture, now adjustable by means of a dial, gaining a wide range of modularity through its versatility of use, the Mantis BS8 floor lamp gives back to Bernard what was Schottlander's.