Quattrolati

Four identical sides make a square. There are so many stories around the square. Josef Albers painted one into the other. At the Bauhaus school a common esercise was grouping a number of squares in different settings. It’s the module of the traditional japanese house.
The logarithmic spiral of a shell was born from a square. Bruno Munari made a sculpture out of a metallic wire square, this sculpture hangs from the ceiling and projects its shadow in a room. A checkers is made of white and black squares. A windmill is a toy you obtain by cutting a square along its diagonals. A labyrinth can be a square. Leonardo has enclosed a human figure in a square. The square gave a structure to our alphabet. Four points are enough to give birth to a square. Quattrolati is a lamp made of Carrara handpolished marble.
The sides of a square contain an empty space, where the light is spread.