In the course of human history, the torch, the lamp, the lantern, the electric light have performed the task of rendering the night 'friendly', of illuminating the gloom of darkness, recreating as far as possible the light of day within the various domestic surroundings.
Heliopolis is a lamp that allows one to choose among the infinite tones of color the sun creates in the span of a day, thus endowing form and image to natural light, so changeable, so incredibly rich in colors, much more than those our usual lighting instruments succeed in recreating. Without a doubt, such a lamp constitutes a notable improvement in the qualitative status of our perceptual and psychological planes - the light produces well-being, the color is sensation. Heliopolis is a substantial step forward in respect to the current offer of lighting appliances.
Color is a fundamental experience in man's life: the passage of the seasons, the alternation of day and night, the continual changing of the sky at dawn and sunset. All these states of luminosity influence our state of mind. They excite us and they calm us, they sadden us and they stimulate us, they make us carnal and they make us spiritual, but the great spectacle of light never leaves us indifferent.

Heliopolis was created in the first Competition Workshop held in the Franciscan sanctuary in Greccio, Italy in 1994. It represents the simplest and, at the same time, the most effective solution to the challenge of recreating with a lamp the infinite tones of color the sun creates in the span of a day. Heliopolis, the colors of the sun in a lamp.