Giuliana Gramigna Fluette lamps for Quattrifolio, Italy, 1979

Gio Ponti (1881-1979) was a Milanese architect, industrial and furniture designer, artist and publisher. He was a pivotal figure in the Italian design and manufacturing industry founding Il Labirinto with Lancia, Buzzi, Marelli, Venini and Chiesa in order to produce high-quality furniture and objects. He also founded Domus magazine which helped contextualise and promote the work of Italian designers and manufacturers around the world. Throughout his career he designed many icons but is perhaps most known for the symbol of modern Milan, the Pirelli skyscraper, in 1956. His furniture has always drawn deeply from Italian traditions and given them a modern edge. This gorgeous lamp is a great example of that. Made from two elements, a textured green aluminium conical base which rises into a delicate opal...

Large Olympe table lamp designed by Harvey Guzzini for ED, Italy 1970s. The demilune shade is particularly pleasing lit, a half moon of ambient light through semi-opaque acrylic. It ...

Large Olympe table lamp designed by Harvey Guzzini for ED, Italy 1970s. The demilune shade is particularly pleasing lit, a half moon of ambient light through semi-opaque acrylic. It ...

Richard Sapper (1932-2015) was born in German but worked in Italy, and his work brings together the best design principles of both nations. On one hand the ‘Tizio’ lamp possesses a northern European emphasis on functionalism. It was conceived as the ideal table lamp by its creator because of its wide range of movements, based on precisely calibrated counterweights at the end of each of the arms. On the other hand, it has a radically lithe profile and dusky, equipoised sense of style redolent of southern European sensibilities. It has become “an icon of high-tech design”, according to the MoMA where an example exhibited, and had its heyday as the lamp of choice for the design-conscious bright young things...

A tall, chromed table lamp with fabric shade, embellished on the base with a sporadic engraved pattern of small crosses. Recently rewired and PAT tested to UK standards. Lamp in goo...

The late Ingo Maurer (1932-2019), founder of design company Design M in Munich, designed intriguing lighting for over 40 years. His output is distinctive in form and concept. His des...

Italian modern Table lamp Fluette by Giuliana Gramigna for Quattrifolio, 1970s Fantastic and vintage table lamp mod. Fluette with double bulb and cylindrical lampshade in red fabric ...

Italian modern Table lamp Fluette by Giuliana Gramigna for Quattrifolio, 1970s Fantastic and vintage table lamp mod. Fluette with double bulb and cylindrical lampshade in red fabric ...

Large white lamp with metal base and fabric shade designed by Giulana Gamigna. Model: Fluette. Possibility of lighting only the bottom or the top or...

Rare Otero table lamp by Giuliana Gramigna for Quattrifolio. White painted metal structure and glass beads shade. Good vintage condition with trace of age and use. Some loss of beads...

Rare Albina table lamp by Giuliana Gramigna for Italian manufacturer Quattrifolio. Minimalist lamp with a lamp holder that is incorporated into the design in a subtle and ingeniou...

Giuliana Gramigna Otero A table lamp with a half-spherical white lacquered shade issuing a transparent-beaded fringe, on a cylindrical central stem, on a flat round terrace. P...