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Ingo Maurer's Piero e l'Uovo

Claire Sullivan - Monday, May 25, 2009

For German lighting designer Ingo Maurer's installation at the Fondazione Carispe, La Spezia in Italy, the designer devised an egg  specifically as an altarpiece. To fulfill his vision of a flawed egg, the designer experimented with broken eggshells and the tension that is required to prevent fragmentation. The surface of the object consists of crushed eggshells, while the overall installation includes two large wall mirrors which reproduce the image into infinity.

To see more of the German lighting designers work go here.