An intriguing fusion of literature, architecture, and lighting. The Ecastacity Floor Lamp from Slamp beams up an artful composition of multi-lingual passages from the Nigel Coates book by the same name, one presenting the architect/designer’s vision for a diverse 21st-century city. Its printed design speaks to a cosmopolitan space, using the world’s city maps as the texture for Coates’s passages. These passages tell of the human experience and our role in the shared space we call a city. While deep with meaning, the arrangement of these passages highlights the beauty and ingenuity of the written word. This luminaire underlines Coates’s view of lighting as a natural extension to architecture. He also brings a sculptural quality to the piece by curving the printed panels and fitting them together with sleek metal hardware. Like the subtle warm hue of a book’s pages, light makes for a beautiful background for the 2d elements. This light mellows out as it exits through the written words, creating a soft aura of illumination.

First conceived in 1994 by Italian designer Roberto Ziliani, Slamp lighting has garnered world recognition as being at the top of a very short list of innovative and envelope-pushing lighting companies. Their range of products made of cutting-edge polymer plastics are cold-formed to avoid CO2 emissions, while excess scraps are recycled into beehives. Slamp, with their resounding mantra, "From Italy to Eternity," sets the stage for their newest and most avant-garde collections yet.