The Monkey Sitting Table Lamp Indoor modern clock 1990 for Alessi

1990 for Alessi

such as the kitchen and the living room born out of the abstract and motionless atmosphere of a magic place: the room in large Sicilian country homes where one is forced to seek shelter from the sultriness while waiting for the scirocco to die down

and the Jefferson Memorial

‎ Of course it's the best-loved Alessi coffee maker

offers a breathtaking panorama: from left to right you can see Sugar Loaf Mountain

The Monkey Sitting Table Lamp Indoor modern clock 1990 for AlessiThe Monkey Lamp is a wild yet functional lighting design by the Italian designer Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba. Like in much of Malerbas previous art and design (such as Sending Animals and Ale Plantana), the Monkey Lamp uses a naturalistic figure to explore relationships between people and animals. Here, the resulting trio of lamps has a human quality to its expression at the same time that it resembles something out of a science museum. Made of resin