RicchiPoveri monument for a bulb. Ingo Maurer. Even though man´s relationship with artificial lighting has a long enough history for our responses to it to be deeply conditioned by tradition and memory, the electric light is still in the infancy. And its forms are continually envolving, driven by technological changes.
Litle more than 100 years old, it is too recent an invention to have had much chance to acquire the kind of cultural baggage that certain other areas of design, principally furniture, inevitably bring with them.