As admirer of Alexander Calder, in 1951 Schottlander created the “ MANTIS ” series of lamps. Movement is intrinsic to all of Schottlander’s work: an artist, an engineer and in no small measure a handyman, he devised a clever system of counterweights combined with a series of strong and flexible metal bars. The shade also is unique of its kind. Like an acrobat suspended in midair, it is made from aluminium using spinning and chasing techniques that are a part of the metalworker’s inventory of skills, but to which he has brought his sculptor’s eye to create a helical movement.
Mantis BS2 is a wall lamp of great singularity and rare elegance, which can be positioned above a counter, an armchair or a table. Present and at the same time discrete, it occupies the space without imposing itself.
