Lumè: The Period Of The Second Industrial Revolution

Lumè is a hanging lamp that exudes a strong retro flavor. It throws us immediately into a past that we have not lived but that never ceases to fascinate us: the period of the Second Industrial Revolution, when Thomas Edison lived and a new era for the lighting industry was about to begin. The first words that come to our minds when we think of that part of history are energy and electricity, the driving forces that gave life to new inventions. Lumè, with its irregularly bronzed metal holder, reminds us a little bit of the iron or copper pipes that made up the gears of the new machinery, and became the support for Edison’s light bulbs. Lumè of course is not designed for the incandescent bulbs of the time, which due to their high consumption