Taking inspiration from the core functionality of the light, the Funiculi Floor Lamp is named to depict the ‘funicular’ action of the piece. Highly flexible with effortless motion, the lamp can be rotated 360 degrees and raised and lowered with a pair of clips featured on the design when it was first launched over forty years ago.
Retaining the beauty and simplicity of the original 1979 design, the Funiculi collection is available in a range of styles and colourways, adaptable for every need.
Lluís Porqueras himself recognises that he began designing without really knowing what industrial design was all about. In 1956 he set up Stoa, the first Catalan design studio, which, amongst other things, brought out lights by Enric Franch.
Together with Jaume Vaquero, he established Vapor in 1979. The company manufactured warm, simple lamps, going against the technological trendiness of the times. “I made very simple things”, affirms Lluís. “Even though the manufacturing process involved 25 separate operations, the end result was simplicity itself; all I wanted to do was to pare away, to pare away and to pare away until I reached the pure essence of a simple, useful object!”.
