Hop Low & Family

Designing lamps allows us to transcend the limits of the object to trace the contours of a space;
we work on the transformation that shadow and light can operate on a place, transporting it into another dimension, that of intimacy, of dream.
Hop Low was born thanks to Atanor and its entrepreneurs who asked us to design an object capable of narrating the story it harbored (every object, every place holds a story, and its strength lies precisely in its ability to tell it). We chose to design a group of small bedside lamps, small "private objects".
We think of places, of objects as states of mind.
We work on a sort of "emotional ergonomics".
We look at them for their "intention to take us into a world where sensation is more important than reality".

Hop Low is an elf, partly stolen from the childish wonder of some works by the artist duo Fischli and Weiss, partly from Disney-like fantasy. It's a small "disobedient" object: the (Disney-like) mushroom chasing Tchaikovsky's notes, constantly out of step with the others and, although never managing to join the chorus, it doesn't care: it goes out of step as if it were the only one in step! The dystonia ceases to be an error and becomes the indispensable accent to the chorus. It's a dancing elf made of hand-blown glass where the artisan's gesture has interpreted the precision of geometric design and transformed it into uniqueness. Where do we imagine it? On a small writing desk, on the table next to the favorite armchair, on the bedside table next to the bed before falling asleep.