The theater has always been a place for spectacle, where light, movement, and storytelling come together in a performance to captivate an audience. In that spirit, Sipario, the last lighting design by creative studio Gupica for Fiam Italia, a leader in glass furnishings, takes center stage as a show-stopping act of its own. Presented at the latest Salone del Mobile, the lamp draws inspiration from theatrical curtains, translating their fluid movement into a sculptural form made of fused glass. While curtains are meant to set the stage for a show, Sipario is the main act currently taking residency at the Remo Brindisi museum house, a fitting place for the modern fixture.
Completed in 1973, the Remo Brindisi house in Lido di Spina, Italy was designed by architect Nanda Vigo for his friend, Italian painter Remo Brindisi, as a place where art, architecture, and design could exist in harmony together. With its cylindrical core, mirrored expanses, and striking spiral staircase, the museum serves as both a private residence and a gallery housing historic works by Bruno Munari, Jean Dubuffet, and Andy Warhol. Perhaps no contemporary setting could better complement Sipario, a piece that embodies the same multidisciplinary ethos.
“The Remo Brindisi house has always been a great source of inspiration for me, a place to think and observe how glass behaves in relation to light, architecture and artworks,” shares Gunilla Zamboni, founder of Gupica. “Nanda Vigo designed the museum working on the concept of perception through light and materials, creating a rarefied, infinite space and developing on the idea of the ‘chronotype,’ which was an important theme for her. Glass interacts with natural and artificial light in a very sensory way. This museum is the ideal scenario that inspired my design for Sipario.”
Like the theater curtains that inspired it, Sipario brings a sense of movement, drama, and light to any space. The pendant lamp transforms the softness and rippling motion of fabric into sculptural waves of fused glassed, diffusing light in a way that feels both ethereal and architectural. Against the white grid tile backdrop of the museum’s walls, the curved glass panels create a striking interplay of transparency and shadow, echoing the spatial rhythm of Vigo’s design. The installation features Sipario lamps in varying sizes, strategically layered to create a dynamic, ever-shifting display that changes with the viewer’s perspective.
Gunilla Zamboni of Gupica
With its theatrical presence and sculptural elegance, Sipario not only illuminates the Remo Brindisi house museum but also reinforces its legacy as a site of artistic exploration and endless inspiration.
Gunilla Zamboni of Gupica
To learn more about the Sipario pendant lamp by Gupica for Fiam Italia, visit fiamitalia.it.
Photography by Filippo Candotti and Simone Fico.