THAÏS || Platek's Portable Outdoor Lamp for Dining, Reading and Everything Between
Marcello Ziliani built Thaïs around a single quiet idea: that a lamp should move as easily as a chair, adjusted for a dinner, a book, or nothing more than the pleasure of sitting outside after dark.
For Platek, the Italian lighting house behind it, that idea shapes everything. Thaïs is a portable outdoor lamp built around a slim, tapered disc and a slender vertical stem, designed to be lifted, lowered, or set loose on a table with its own dedicated accessory. It behaves less like a fixed fitting and more like a tool for placing light exactly where an evening calls for it, closer for a card table, higher for a long dinner, dimmed low for reading past midnight.
Raised against dusk, the disc becomes almost architectural, a small punctuation mark against the roofline behind it.
That flexibility comes with real durability. Rated IP65, Thaïs is built for weather and wear, with a protected structure and craftsmanship that draws openly from yachting, all polished hardware and considered joinery, without losing the formal lightness of its silhouette.
Its newest expression is a finish, not a redesign. SurfShield in the SilverMoon colourway reinterprets Thaïs's signature stone-washed brass in a cooler register, muting the metal's usual warmth into something more rarefied and lunar. Applied directly to the material, the treatment keeps brass's living quality intact; it will still take on patina, still deepen with age, but the reflections it casts are quieter now, more silver than gold.
That shift matters for how a room reads after sunset. A warm brass lamp pulls a space toward amber and rust. SilverMoon does the opposite, settling comfortably into cooler palettes, jewel-toned cushions, blue-grey stone, deep green upholstery, without ever competing with them. It is a finish built for people who already know what mood they are decorating toward.
Thaïs was never only about illumination. It is about giving a room, or a terrace, the freedom to change its mind after dark.
The knurled edge catches evening light the way the yachting world intended, a small, tactile detail built to be touched as much as seen.
Photography: Matteo Girola
