Artemide - Microsurf wall lamp white
A simple design that integrates into any architectural context.
Minimal design for a wall element that takes you back to riding the waves typical of surfers.
Neil Poulton
Neil Poulton is a Scottish product designer based in Paris. He specializes in the design of "deceptively simple-looking mass-produced objects" and has won numerous international design awards. Poulton is best known for his technology projects and lighting design and is often associated with lacie and Artemide manufacturers, with whom it has long-term relationships dating back to the early 1990s.
Poulton earned his BA in Industrial Design from Napier University in Edinburgh in 1985.
In 1988 he obtained his Master in Design at the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, under the guidance of the Italian architect Andrea Branzi and the designer Alberto Meda.
Poulton is often a guest lecturer, laboratory professor and graduate judge at universities around the world - including Central Saint Martins in London, Domus Academy in Milan, Western Australia University in Perth, Australia, the EESAB in Rennes and the ENSCI (Les Ateliers) in Paris. Poulton’s projects have won numerous awards, including ten German Red Dot Design Awards, two "Best of the Best" Red Dot Design Awards, five German "IF" International Forum Design awards, two "Compasso d'Oro Award Recommendations", and the "Honorable Mention Premio Compasso d'Oro 2011" for the Veio lamp designed for Artemide.
In 2018, Poulton’s Scopas lamp for Artemide was unveiled at the first Permanent Scottish Gallery in V&A Dundee, Scotland. In 2019 Neil Poulton was inducted into the Napier University Hall of Fame in Edinburgh, Scotland - and vice versa he was also named one of the French "FD100" - the top 100 designers who best represent French design internationally.
Neil Poulton has lived and worked in Paris, France, since 1991.
Founded in 1960 by Ernesto Gismondi, chairman, the Artemide Group is located in Pregnana Milanese. It operates through 24 subsidiary and associated companies and boasts a distribution network including 55 single-brand showrooms in the world's most important cities. Artemide products are distributed in 98 several countries.
Technological research, dialogue with architects but also investigation are, indeed, for Artemide the basis of innovative projects able to illuminate the future.
Today Artemide collections represent a unique intersection of values. The human and responsible approach to light is combined with design and material know-how, in a meeting of the latest-generation technology and ancient knowledge, the perfect expression of sustainable design.
