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    Cone of Uncertainty

    Aug 28, 2018 3 minutes
    TEXT BY Lindsay J. Warner
    PHOTOS BY | @JAMIECHUNGSTUDIO Jamie Chung

    Two short, quickly scribbled words nearly put an end to the Aplomb before the hanging lamp even reached the prototype stage: “Non fare.” Italian shorthand for, “It cannot be done.”

    That fateful sentence is scrawled across the bottom of a faded sheet of fax paper dated June 6, 2008, below an original drawing for the funnel-shaped pendant by Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere. The designers had approached master craftsman Giovanni Piccinelli about producing the design in concrete for Foscarini, a high-end Italian lighting firm.

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