Lumikiik 1970
Lumikiik is a lamp designed by Francois Dallegret as part of his seminal KiiK series from the late 1960s.  The barbell-shaped Kiik motif became the basis of several important graphic commissions, including a poster for Reyner Banham’s 1968 Aspen International Design Conference, a fabric pattern for Knoll, and a psychedelic vision of a new U.S. Silver Dollar for Avant-Garde magazine.  Turned into a tiny steel object, Kiik was something else entirely – a curvy “hand-pill” that, when stroked, would “help cure body discomfort and mind obsessions”.  Following closely the Kiik geometry, Lumikiik is made of three sections of spun and polished aluminum, with a vacuum-formed translucent Plexiglas dome.  Lead shots rest inside the base, allowing Lumikiik to swivel while remaining perfectly balanced – conveying, as Dallegret put it in 1970, its “magnetism and electrical magic potential…”
Edition of three plus two artist’s proofs