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The Art of Light by Poltrona Frau
- Style Essentials Edit Team
- Oct 25
- 3 min read
For more than a century, Poltrona Frau has turned craftsmanship into a language of quiet precision. Its latest collaboration, with Six N. Five—the Barcelona-based studio led by Argentine digital artist Ezequiel Pini—extends that legacy into a new dimension: light as emotion, design as poetry.
The partnership, revealed with The Five Seasons 2025 collection, is built around two sculptural lamps that explore how digital imagination can find tangible form. Moonbeam and Foliage are not just lighting objects; they are small studies in atmosphere, showing what happens when a brand known for impeccable material culture meets an artist who paints with pixels and reflection.
Pini has long been fascinated by light—not merely as illumination but as a source of creative energy. His digital compositions often orbit the tension between nature and geometry, between the real and the imagined. Translating that vision into a physical object demanded a different discipline. With Poltrona Frau’s team of master craftsmen, he began to shape what he once rendered.
“Light is an essential element in my work,” he says. “Through light we can give a visual sense to such a complex concept. I wanted to unite the source and the result in two iconic pieces—the light and the nature that springs from that vital essence.”
The Moonbeam Table Lamp captures the moment of a solar eclipse—a thin arc of brightness suspended in stillness. A flat base in natural brass anchors two intersecting discs: one in Pelle Frau® ColorSphere® Impact Less leather or polished brass, the other in pearl-white satin glass. Where the two surfaces meet, a delicate crescent of light appears, soft and atmospheric, as if floating just above the table.
It’s an exercise in balance: technical in its structure, deeply human in its warmth. Each lamp carries the quiet signature of handwork—the subtle tension between precision and touch that defines Poltrona Frau’s workshop in Tolentino.
For Nicola Coropulis, the brand’s CEO, this encounter between craft and digital artistry was inevitable. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Six N. Five in his exploration of the physical product,” he notes. “His creative language aligns with Poltrona Frau’s artisanal excellence, unlocking new potential in the relationship between art and design.”
That relationship is what makes The Art of Light feel so current. The conversation between hand and algorithm, between studio and screen, mirrors a wider shift in contemporary design. It isn’t about replacing tradition; it’s about expanding it.
Poltrona Frau has quietly pursued its own research in lighting for years, seeking ways to merge material integrity with new technologies. Moonbeam continues that inquiry, offering light that behaves more like mood than illumination. Its companion, the Foliage Lamp, takes a different route—casting soft, leafy silhouettes that echo Pini’s fascination with organic patterns.
Neither lamp demands attention; they invite it. Together they suggest that design can be both functional and poetic, that light can still surprise us in a world already saturated with screens.
Though based in Barcelona, Pini’s imagination always returns to the natural world. He uses 3D modeling, motion, and texture to replicate its complexity, but in this collaboration the process reverses itself. Instead of simulating nature, he distills it—reducing a landscape to a single gesture of light and form.
The result fits effortlessly within Poltrona Frau’s vocabulary of tactility and restraint. Brass, leather, and glass become the medium through which a digital artist rediscovers material truth.
The Art of Light is ultimately about convergence—of disciplines, of elements, of emotions. It shows how a brand rooted in Italian craftsmanship can converse fluently with a creator shaped by pixels and code. The outcome is neither futuristic nor nostalgic; it sits precisely in the present, where design still has the power to move us.
In Moonbeam, a sliver of light hangs between shadow and glow, reminding us that even the most advanced ideas still begin with something simple: the human desire to shape light, and to be shaped by it in return.
Credits
Design Collaboration — Poltrona Frau × Six N. Five (Ezequiel Pini)
Collection — The Five Seasons 2025
Photography — Courtesy Poltrona Frau
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