Italian lighting company Artemide is the latest brand to add portable lighting to its collection with its cordless Emera and Empatia Mobile lamps.
Emera ? designed by Artemide co-founder Ernesto Gismondi and designer Daniele Moioli ? features a disc-like shade with embedded LEDs. A cone-shaped base conceals the battery.
Emera was designed by Artemide co-founder Ernesto Gismondi and designer Daniele Moioli
"The shape was born from both functional and technical needs," Gismondi told Dezeen. "The gradient of the cone body reflects the angle of light which is emitted."
"We wanted to make a portable light to create flexible atmospheres for the user that are able to adapt to the ever-changing organisation of space." Emera launched at Milan design week, where portable lighting has become increasingly common in recent years. Philippe Starck told Dezeen at the 2015 event that advances in lighting technology meant cables would gradually disappear.
Artemide released its first cordless light even earlier, in 1999. Called the Sui, it rested on a flexible stem and had a flat head dotted with LEDs.
The cordless light features a disc-like shade with embedded LEDs that sits atop a cone-shaped base
Alongside Emera, Artemide also launched Empatia Mobile, which features a dome-shaped glass shade. According to the company, it references traditional Venetian glass blowing traditions.
Designer Carlotta de Bevilacqua created the shape to be reminiscent of traditiona...