Moon by Davide Groppi: 20 years of timeless light, dreams and suspended wonder

20 years of an earthly moon.
20 years of a timeless sign of light.

Moon was born from a dream, putting the moon inside your home. A simple and powerful idea that took shape in 2005 and that, 20 years later, is still pure magic. Moon by the Italian brand Davide Groppi continues to inspire and surprise, confirming that true beauty lies in the uniqueness and emotion of light. The lamp design is not just an object, but a sensory experience, capable of transforming any environment with its soft and enveloping light.

The secret of its uniqueness lies in the artisanal process: each Moon is realised with manually applied Japanese paper, layer after layer. This process makes each lighting design unrepeatable, with a texture that recalls the lunar surface, made of shadows and imperfections that become distinctive signs of authenticity. The work adapts and transforms, like the moon in the sky.

The moon is a powerful and mysterious presence, a dream fragment which accompanies us in the real world, but it is man, with his gaze and curiosity, who gives it form and meaning. In this encounter, the light of the Moon recounts stories of intimacy, desire, hope and dreams, transforming the environment into a location where the metaphysical and the quotidian meld into a single poetic vision.

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, this reflection on the boundary between man and nature culminates in the project Moon, sogno sospeso (suspended dream) by Davide Groppi and Gianni Lucchesi, an anyman, a universal and timeless figure who, in contemplating the moon, becomes intermediary and source, creator and at the same time active conductor of emotions and stories. Each tries to understand and touch the other, in a game of equilibrium between the big and small, the terrestrial and the astronomical. Once again, the moon is a space to inhabit, observe and imagine. A place that belongs to us and yet at the same time escapes us, just like light.

A line is the edge between interior and exterior, free to mix and to be contaminated on different grounds as in Moon, sogno sospeso. The places where Lucchesi’s artworks come to life are chosen with care. Whether the evocative depth and charm of such places is due to nature or the product of man’s work does not matter, as long as they possess the suggestive power to encompass the new art, the new interpretation of human sentiment.