The London International Creative Competition has assigned two honorable mentions to Andrea Cingoli. One in interior design with “Hang-On!”, the flexible lamp made up of illuminating clothes hangers and another in product design with “PLAN”, the shelf with a hole that can become a basketball hoop or change into, with other plug-ins, to make our rooms more fun and versatile.
LICC is one of the most prestigious creative competitions in the world and its finality is to facilitate contact between the artists/designers, the international crowd and the specialized companies. LICC is in its tenth edition and the jury, composed of 19 super experts, from all over the world, are each consolidated experts in their various fields of design.
The Abruzzese architect and designer has obtained this brilliant result thanks to the “HANG-ON!” lamp, which represents and interprets the changes in our life style and life needs and how these evolve and transform the interior spaces we live in.
“We need”, Andrea Cingoli comments, presenting his project, “of devices that make the reality around us flexible and HANG-ON! Is surely a lighting system able to fit this description. The illuminating hangers can be freely moved on the low tension support rail, allowing us to move them around as we like”.
Andrea Cingoli’s project idea, however, presents other possibilities: “With HANG-ON! We can increase the light intensity by adding hangers that turn on instantly in contact with the rail and we can color the light by using the hanger’s natural role by hanging, for example, colored t-shirts. The system can be used in a business environment as well as at home. Each hanger has a LED strip that uses low levels of energy. The hangers can be sold separately from the system and I have designed a solution, which is extremely flexible, which adds extensions to the base kit so one can build, freely, his or her own solution based on their needs”.
The other object that has obtained a positive result from the London prize jury is “PLAN”. This proposed project is also the result of a creative reasoning that is based on the re-visiting of a commonly used object, like a shelf. “Sometime, the most common of objects”, Andrea Cingoli declares, “ consolidated in both their use and familiarity, can hide the biggest of surprises. PLAN is a shelf capable of changing according to the needs of the users. It can become a fun game, but at the same time, it can transform into a very useful lamp or container.”
This is how Andrea Cingoli sums up his efforts in the creative and design field: “My work aims to make our rooms welcoming and versatile, with make a touch of fun, but never futile or superficial.”
Casa Abruzzo will be lit up with “Flamp”, the lamp created by the Abruzzese designer Andrea Cingoli, product of experimentation with Flexiglass, a material made with an innovative procedure, which is being patented. The table lamp looks like a crystalized flame and makes the lamp an element of design by transforming the source of light into an object of art, a sculpture, fixed to a circular metallic base which houses a 3 watt LED.
“Flamp is one of the proposals that will be shown in the three days dedicated to glass and its artistic expressions and designs, shown, from October 15th to 17th , in Milan in via Fiori Chiari 9, zona Brera.
The creations of the “Concepticon” studio will animate the show “Glass between Art and Design: from concept to crystalization, through the study of the material, techniques and technologies of glass production”.
The strength of “Flamp” is all in its initial material: “Flexiglass”. To create this work of art the designer used a broken sheet of laminated glass. It is the breaking of the glass, in fact, that gives it its particular characteristics that makes every object made unique. The recycled or scrap materials, thanks to the solution thought of by the Abruzzese designer, could have a wide use with great advantages for the environment. The recycling of laminated glass, through the production of “Flexiglass” wouldn’t require, like in the past, a costly separation process. Also, we could avoid high energy working techniques, eliminating the need for blowing ovens or costly disposal procedures. The process, studied and experimented by Andrea Cingoli, allows one to bend in any which way or shape the sheet of laminated glass. Thus, you can obtain art products, design products, artisan objects, both small and large, self-bearing or with a certain bearing capacity, limited only by the category of furniture and conditioned only by the shape of the object in question. We can thus create sculptures, shower boxes, tiles, roofing tiles, internal partitions, furnishings and objects of any shape, starting with the “Flamp” lamp.
ANDREA CINGOLI – graduated cum laude in Architecture from the University G.D’Annunzio of Pescara in 2006. Since 2000 he is the Technical Director of Cingoli Consolidamento e Restauro, in 2007 he co-founded Zo_Loft Architettura & Design (www.zo-loft.com). With Zo Loft, in the last five years, he placed consistantly in the top places in many different contests and international prizes for architecture and design (IDA AWARD, Atlanta International Design AwardS, MACEF Design Award, just to name a few). In 2010 he was selected as one of the best Italian talents in the Young Blood Competition. In 2014 he founded “CONCEPTICON”, a company that deals in concept design, specifically in creativity and the innovation of business models.
Casa Abruzzo is home to a three day expo dedicated to glass and its artistic expression and design. On show, from October 15th to 17th, in Via Fiori Chiari 9, zona Brera, are the creations of Concepticon studio. “Glass between Art and Design: from concept to crystallization, through the study of the material, techniques and technologies of glass production” is the title of the show which brings us the creations of Andrea Cingoli, young Abruzzese designer, produced by Berengo Studio of Venice and the hands of master glass-man Silvano Signoretto. Specifically, the show will present the composite sculpture, created in free blown glass, “Glass Pop-corn”. The work is characterized by the descriptive force of the blown glass and the natural light weight of being that is pop corn. Art thus lives, once again, through a fantastical association with food and stimulates a modern representation, entrusted to a noble material, that only the masterful hands of an artisan can tame. It is not by coincidence that Glass Pop-Corn is the fruit of a young designer’s creativity, entrusted to the capable hands of a master glass-man.
ANDREA CINGOLI – graduated cum laude in Architecture from the University G.D’Annunzio of Pescara in 2006. Since 2000 he is the Technical Director of Cingoli Consolidamento e Restauro, in 2007 he co-founded Zo_Loft Architettura & Design (www.zo-loft.com). With Zo Loft, in the last five years, he placed consistently in the top places in many different contests and international prizes for architecture and design (IDA AWARD, Atlanta International Design AwardS, MACEF Design Award, just to name a few). In 2010 he was selected as one of the best Italian talents in the Young Blood Competition. In 2014 he founded “CONCEPTICON”, a company that deals in concept design, specifically in creativity and the innovation of business models.
SILVANO SIGNORETTO – born in 1951, the third of 8 children, he started working at age 8 at the furnaces of the great maestro Alfredo Barbini, where two of his brothers worked already; Pino, famous contemporary glass sculptor and Gianni, great master of stylish chandeliers. After learning the basics of glass working, he decides to change furnaces, working for other famous Murano artisans, like Renato Mazzega, where he started working with important designed such as professor De Laim with whom he created a series of new sculptures. Not happy with that, he started working with Seguso vetri d’arte, along side an important master of the craft, Angelo Seguso, and collaborating with the great designer Vittorio Rigattieri. Time passes and his ability to shape this material grows, so much that he finds himself working more frequently with important sculptors, designers and painters. In 1990 he works with vetreria Venini, creating the “horse of Leonardo”, a structure of iron and blown glass designed by computer by Ben Jakober and Yannick Yu, presented at the 45th edition of the Biennale of Venice. Throughout the years he create important glass sculptures, shown in galleries and museums around the world, in collaboration with contemporary artists like Marina Kotter, Philip Tsiaras, Hideto Nashimura, Maria Grazia Rosin. He has been collaborating with Berengo Studio for years and creating important works of art and glass objects.
BERENGO STUDIO 1989 – is a gallery that promotes glass as the material for contemporary art. Some of the works produced by the studio have been shown at the Biennale d’Arte of Venice and at prestigious international museums, thanks also to the GLASSTRESS project (www.glasstress.org). Adriano Berengo, the founder, has created his own museum, the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, a true cathedral for glass art, created in the heart of an old, decommissioned glass furnace from the early 1900’s. The works of the main artists that have worked with him during the years are shown in this building, left as it was with the old ovens and original tools. The works themselves have been installed in keeping with the harmony and style of that time. Berengo Studio represents the most innovative reality in glass experimentation on the island of Murano; its creations are a happy encounter between the most avant garde of contemporary art and the traditional techniques of the Murano artisan heritage.
