In 2007 Terenzi Srl makes possible the realization of the Aeros pendant lamp, paradigm of aesthetic refinement and technical virtuosity.
The innovative and stylish design of Aeros represented a major challenge in terms of production. The prototyping and the industrialization of its complex structure had been proposed to different Companies, that due to the explicit design and technical difficulties encountered, had given up the order without delay.
Ross Lovegrove wished to create an ethereal and floating object, perceived as light, despite its size. Aeros was therefore ideated with a curvilinear design, given by two juxtaposed combined parts, made of anodized aluminum and perforated, as if they were delicate uninterrupted circular faintly golden embroideries. This elaborate surface pattern is inspired by the shapes of nature, but the surprising texture, which gives rise to an elegant alternation of light and shade, also evokes reminiscences of ancient Byzantine decorations. The particular light diffusion accentuates, with its mystical effect, the feeling of the observer of being in front of an oscillating and lightweight object, which captivates the gaze through multiple reverberations: the horizontal emission, through the aluminum "lace" that casts its shapes in the environment, the diffusion directed downwards and the suffused emanation upwards. The reflector, in fact, provides a distribution of soft and thin light, as its design is inspired by the Fibonacci number sequence, theorized in 1202 and closely linked to the logarithmic spiral, representing the universal law of harmony.
Between 2007 and 2009 our Company was asked to engineer, prototype and produce Aeros, pendant lamp in anodized aluminum with compact fluorescent light source. The aluminum, the material designated and selected by Lovegrove for its lightweight nature, once processed (deep-drawn, blanked/cut, folded), shall be anodized with a slightly "Golden Sand" shade. The complex structure of the lamp requires, in each operating phase, the overcoming of particular critical matters, which added up exacerbate exponentially the difficulty of the realization of the object, as well as the logistics and the storage. The engineering becomes, therefore, extremely important and decisive for the subsequent development of the industrialization of the product; the product requires obviously also fairly high qualitative and consequently technical standards.
The circular structure of Aeros is made of two combined parts (upper and lower), with different processes and problems to be overcome. The circular lower screen has as distinguishing feature a very deep double drawing, which is difficult to realize. From here it follows the choice of an aluminum with particularly ductile alloy, allowing the extreme stretching intended by the design, without breaking. The antithesis of the characteristics required creates critical matters inevitably, since the malleability of the material is particularly delicate and sensitive to surface scratches, intolerable for the standard aesthetic quality of the product. This leads unavoidably to specific attention to the optimization and to the control of the final stages of: packing, storage and transport. The applied processes to the screen are various: from the first step of laser cutting, to the deep drawing, to the different steps of blanking, to the trimming and folding of the edges. The production of the upper circular screen included the same steps described above, with the exception of the second deep drawing, which is here absent. Common to the two screens the idea of a sophisticated engineering, useful to the development of the circular finishing of the edges and especially effective in order to achieve the round hole punching with decorative patterns, extremely complex, since it is made on the convex surface of the two screens. The adopted solution to reach the target cost, was an elaborated rotating three-dimensional blanking tool, wisely used instead of the alternative 3D laser offered technology which, though advanced, needs indispensably much more substantial investment and less rapid timing. The engineering also planned the design and manufacture of special equipment and ad hoc mold tools for metal, specifically developed for the industrialization of the product. The last industrial process, as much complicated, is that of anodizing, with which, different colors were screened and tested with various methods and shades, until the desired and requested optimal gradation is reached.
