This lamp was created when JMA was commissioned to design Nectar Restaurant for the opening of the Bellagio Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. The indigenous pre-Columbian Southwestern construction, in which columns were formed by branching tree trunks, presented an initial concept for this American Grill. The branching motif was used throughout the design of the project. The artist and his wife refer to this lamp as the Twin's Twig Lamp, as their twins were born just before it was realized.
PROCESS + MATERIALS
Structure and finials: Hand-carved forms cast in recycled aluminum-magnesium alloy, hand-polished, rubbed with elixirs to patina the metal surface. hand blown glass.
This piece is unique: the glass for each lamp is handmade and varies from piece to piece as illustrated in the photos.
Made in Chicago.
DIMENSIONS
H 22.5 in. x W 7 in. x D 12 in.
H 57.15 cm x W 17.78 cm x D 30.48 cm
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
1997/2014
CREDITS
Lamp portraits by Monica Kass Rogers.
Nectar photos and in situ photos by Doug Snower.
Watercolor studies by Jordan Mozer.