This listing is for a very interesting Moooi 'Dear Ingo' Chandelier designed in 2003 by the renowned Israeli artist Ron Gilad. It is a wonderful piece that combines 16 lamps into what some people refer to as a Black Spider. The inner Ring is 15" in diameter, and each lamp can extend about 36" outwards from the ring. These sell new online for $3,500+. This one is in good used condition with some minor scuffs and scratches. It is missing three of the springs, and one lamp has a bad fixture that will need to be replaced. By using 9 watt LED bulbs (60-watt equivalent) the lamp will only use 144 watts of power. Please see the detailed photos below and contact us with any questions before bidding. We have a low price, so don't miss your chance to win!
Two of the photos below are stock photos. The rest of them show the actual chandelier that is for sale.
This item is available for pickup in Colchester, Vermont. We can also ship by truck freight. Please send over a zip code for a shipping quote.
Dimensions: 31.4" diameter (MIN) - 90.5" diameter (MAX)
Material: powder-coated steel
Bulb: 16 x 60W E27
Certification: UL listed
The Dear Ingo chandelier was designed by Ron Gilad for Moooi in the Netherlands. This modern design chandelier encompasses functionality with style. Designer Ron Gilad transformed an assemblage of conventional incandescent task lights into a retractable multilamp chandelier as an homage to Ingo Maurer. Each light, made from powder-coated steel and painted black, can be individually positioned. Sixteen black metal lamps are attached to a metal black ring and suspended from the ceiling. A brilliant and beautiful design.
Moooi designs and produces their modern lighting and contemporary accessories in the Netherlands. No wonder Moooi's collection is so attractive: the Dutch word for "beautiful" is "mooi". A combination of elegance, grace and timeless good looks typifies the Moooi collection. Legendary Dutch designers of note include Edward van Vliet, Bertjan Pot, Jurgen Bey, Job Smeets, Maarten Baas and Marcel Wanders. Museum curators clearly have taken notice as well. Several pieces of the Moooi collection have already been snapped up for museum collections including the MoMA New York.
Ron Gilad:
Gilad has committed his body and mind to materializing of ideas, creating design pieces of astringent
thoughtfulness, wit and elegance.
Currently a New Yorker, Gilad is a well-established and esteemed Israeli-by-origin designer who quickly drew the attention of curators, galleries, designers and press even while still a student at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. A graduate of the Industrial Design Department, Gilad’s fascination with "deconstructing" the function of an object has resulted in a broad body of work, ranging from furniture to jewelry to whole interiors. Each of his designs exhibits his meticulous attention and focus, his poetic formalism, and his offering of beautiful asceticism to a camp-obsessed world. Through this rigor, however, Gilad enlivens a consciousness of material vulnerability and deception: a cylinder vase is pierced by a bullet, what appears to be a table is in fact a block of wood with a printed void.
Gilad has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions at the top museums and design galleries in Israel, including the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, the Jerusalem Art Center, and the Ramat-Gan Museum of Modern Art. His work has been selected for the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum in NY and the Tel-Aviv Museum of modern Art as well as for private collections. In early 2001, Gilad completed an environmental sculpture comprised of one chair in many configurations for the city of Jerusalem that was heralded by the Municipal Art Committee as one of the most elegant designs for the city.
Prior to moving to New York, Gilad was a lecturer and instructor in 3D and Conceptual Design in the newly formed Jewelry Design Department at Shenkar design & engineering Academy in Ramat-Gan where he excelled in provoking his students to think beyond conventional boundaries and into the domain of challenging design concepts.