An encounter with a Malvadìa Gadì lamp immediately offers you a sensorial expansion: your eyes move back and forth along new lines, your timid hands feed, your hearing loses its way in the voice hidden in the little hanging cover as though in the wake of a siren song, your sense of smell steps ahead trying to imagine what past era it is approaching. And that of taste?
Yes, taste: so stimulating is it that you hanker to taste the mellowness of the painted colors!
This is the playful part that Malvadìa imagines when working on a lamp, especially when on commission: it she delights in imagining which flavors the recipient of that future luminous companion might prefer.
And there’s another game to be played with a Malvadìa Gadì: on/off.
Yes, because lamps/stories take on different characters when on and off, and not only in their colors: the figures themselves and their relative force of their masses change.
Looking at it means finding, each time, something new.