Now they are matching themselves up against the oldest and most calssical of materials.
In a search for new and original forms, Ercolani's lamp combines the colours and the proportions of Pompeian painting with the refinement of marble. What we see is not so much a lamp as a luminous sculpture where the sinous forms of the four curtains in Afyon marble blowing in the wind, stand out clearly.
The warm colours of the curtains which, when lit up, take on ochre-yellowish colours and of the little pillars (Pompeian-red travertine) combine perfectly, in the full-empty contrasts of the two flat surfaces, with the Cipolin green of the bases and the roof and the green Aver and Portoro of the central element which acts as a support for the gilded lamp-holder shaft.