An installation designed by SOM in collaboration with Artemide, the storied manufacturer of high-design lighting, is featured in a special exhibition during Milan Design Week. Organized by Interni Magazine as a centerpiece of the Fuorisalone program—a series of events and exhibitions taking place across the city during Salone del Mobile—the exhibition, titled Cre-Action, includes contributions from international architects and designers. Our installation presents for the first time the prototype for a new lighting fixture, Tetras, designed by SOM for Artemide.
Located in the east loggia of the historic Ca’ Granda courtyard—a Renaissance masterpiece by the architect Filarete—the installation by SOM and Artemide shows how lighting can contribute to efficient and uplifting environments. SOM has designed a modular and versatile fixture that conceives of light as an architectural building block. The design of Tetras is based on extreme efficiency—its simple, cruciform shape achieves a perfect balance of diffuse and direct light, minimizing glare and enhancing visual comfort. Equipped with high-efficiency LEDs and produced with a minimal use of materials, it reflects a commitment to environmental responsibility. The Tetras collection is designed to be infinitely flexible and adaptable, with fixtures that can be customized in size and spacing to illuminate virtually any space.
Within the Ca’ Granda courtyard, 13 Tetras fixtures are hung perpendicularly within the loggia’s archways to create an iconographic display, in dialogue with Filarete’s architecture—itself a modular system of repeating forms. The lighting installation recalls the mathematical symbols of addition and multiplication, to evoke an allegorical formula for design and development. In synthesizing creative vision, manufacturing, and environmental values, it represents SOM’s guiding principles at all scales of intervention in the built environment.
In addition to the Interni exhibition, SOM’s Tetras lighting fixture will be on view at Artemide’s stand at Euroluce (Pavilion 4, Booth C15 D10), and at the Artemide showroom in Milan at Corso Monforte, 19.
Cre-Action: Interni at Fuorisalone 2025
April 7 – 17, 2025
University of Milan – Ca’ Granda
via Festa del Perdono 7
