Contemporary designers create one-off candle holders for A Flame for Research charity project
Designers including Patricia Urquiola, Jaime Hayon and Marcel Wanders have created metal candle holders for a project to raise funds for cancer research, which is currently on show at Milan design week.
Urquiola, Hayon, Michele de Lucchi, Philippe Malouin, Luca Nichetto and Matteo Thun designed one piece each for the A Flame for Research charity project.
Patricia Urquiola's "Hope" is one of the candleholders designed especially for the project
Panter & Tourron, Marcel Wanders Studio, Federica Biasi and Alberto and Francesco Meda also took part in the project, which was initiated by Daniele Mingardo.
Mingardo, who founded the Mingardo metal design brand in 2013, worked together with curator Federica Sala and Mingardo art director Federica Biasi to get the 10 contemporary product and industrial designers involved. The finished works include a sculpture-like candelabra by Hayon and a design by Wanders that combines an electric light with a candleholder.
London's chimneys and industrial tower informed Philippe Malouin's design
The pieces will be auctioned off at Christie's with profits going to Italy's Mario Negri Pharmacological Research Institute, which is dedicated to clinical and biomedical research.
Mingardo launched A Flame for Research to help support cancer research after his mother passed away from the disease.
Designer Jaime Hayon's candelabra Instrument N 01 is shaped like a face
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