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International eco-designer Alice Tedesco’s work revolves around unique lighting concepts. Her most recent project, ExMoon, recently won an A’Design Award in Lighting Products plus the Lighting Projects Design categories
by the International Design Academy.
BY HANNAH RACHEL CARROLL
PHOTOS BY GIORGIA AMODIO AND ANDREA TEDESCO
she deems it ready.
“It is the most important piece of the puzzle,”
she explains.
Born in Sicily, Tedesco isn’t like most in her in-
dustry: beautiful lighting is always her focus. She creates exquisite lighting concepts and builds entire designs around them.
For her latest hospitality project, which transformed the BellaVista Restaurant in Sicily, Tedesco dreamed of bringing the moon down to earth. She collaborated with Italian artist and de- signer Oçilunam to create ve moon-replica lights of varying sizes – some as large as ve feet – to hang throughout the café.
“BellaVista sits on a calm beach on the Strait of Sicily,” she says. “I wanted to enhance its natural beauty and charm. I thought big yellow moons – the ones that take up the sky and make you stop and stare – would be an elegant addition to the restaurant’s established look and feel. Plus, I think the moon and the beach are a lovely combination — especially at dusk.”
The realistic moons are made of Nebulite®, a specially developed material made of resins and bers that mimics the uneven, so ly luminescent qualities of the lunar surface. Tedesco also hung 150 dimmable frosted-globe LED light bulbs, cra ed by local electricians and artisans, in the adjoining cocktail lounge. The bulbs hang at seven di erent heights from aluminum rails, mimicking a starry night sky.
To complete the project, Tedesco lined the nearby beach with her signature lighting product: the Sframe. Made of handcra ed stainless steel
The BellaVista hospitality project was inspired by the moon’s ethereal emanation of light. Alice Tedesco and Italian designer Oçilunam created lamps made of Nebulite® to mimic the lunar surface.
Designer Spotlight
Before unveiling her work, in- terior designer Alice Tedesco walks through the space and pretends to see it for the rst time. If the ambiance is right,
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