Nur A bit little lantern, a bit little Aladdin's lamp, Nur is a box of memory. Subjective and personal, the memory of mad | is | dead (Dino Lorusso) expands its range of products by providing you to feel the stimuli that each viewer can realize through the embroidery of light and shadow. A filter - this is also Nur - that relates what belongs to the private sphere and the public, the individual and the collective. And so are the "mashrabiye", architectural elements of the North African and Middle Eastern houses that create a screen that protects from the sun, heat and from prying eyes; a source of inspiration for the designer in the design, planning and realization of the lamp. The author's eyes, in fact, had collected (and then stored) through the medium of photography numerous "mashrabiye" seen mainly in the oldest districts of Cairo and Baghdad, as well as in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, UAE, Iran, Morocco and Tunisia. Photography, architecture and design: three languages that permeate the deepening of a focused research on the Arab world and its ancient culture. Emotionally translated and layered atmospheres and suggestions of the memories of density is the goal to which it mad | is | dead aspires when he conceives his "magic box". The metal cube has six laser carved walls, each of which has its own ornamental decoration. The repeated pattern that comes from "author's collection". A fragment that, therefore, travels from one spatial dimension to another. Geometric weaves are doubled in the projection that amplifies the images of forms engraved by laser and expanding all around: they have an evocative and poetic content, rather than symbolic. As written by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998): "Light is the most important part of the lantern / poetry the most important notebook / and the kiss the most important part of your lips".
