Arredoluce Furniture
The lighting company Arredoluce opened in 1943, at the start of a golden era of modernist Italian design, and was born of the confluence of an eager entrepreneurial business spirit and a fresh, innovative, forward-looking creative atmosphere.
Angelo Lelii (1911–79), the founder of Arredoluce, which was based in the Milanese district of Monza, was a gifted and at times brilliant designer. He had the insight to commission works from other greats of the day, including Gio Ponti, Vico Magistretti, the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and Ettore Sottsass Jr.
Lelii’s designs cover a broad aesthetic range. His most famous work, the Triennale floor lamp (circa 1947), is both elegant and practical, with three omnidirectional lighting booms attached to a central pole. His well-known ceiling light of 1954 — in which a conical canister bounces light upward off a lighting-arced enameled-aluminum sheet — is a piece of design poetry. And his 1962 Cobra table lamp has a wild, almost Surrealist look, featuring a sculptured rod of polished metal with a socket that, like his Eye floor lamp of the early 1960s, holds an eyeball-like directional bulb.
Arredoluce also placed few constraints on the creativity of the designers it employed from outside the company. The Castiglioni brothers’ Tubino table lamp of 1951, for example, is a remarkably early example of minimalist design. The company both fostered the tradition-minded aspect of Ponti’s sensibility and produced several of his experimental pieces in Lucite in the 1950s; and Sottsass’s UFO table lamp of 1957, a sandwich of two plastic bubbled tablets on four legs, prefigures the look of his postmodern works for the Memphis Group by more than 20 years.
From the stylish and utilitarian to the avant-garde, vintage Arredoluce floor lamps, table lamps, chandeliers and other lighting includes some of the most diverse, remarkable — and collectible — designs of the late 20th century.
1970s Italian Industrial Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass, Wire
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Steel, Nickel
Late 20th Century Italian Arredoluce Furniture
Marble, Metal
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum
1970s Italian Industrial Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Furniture
Chrome
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal, Steel
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Furniture
Enamel, Stainless Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Stainless Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Carrara Marble, Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Wire, Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Marble, Metal, Chrome
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass, Nickel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Chrome
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal, Magnets
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Chrome, Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Travertine, Chrome, Wire, Brass
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
Adjustable Arms and lights
brass,enameled steel and enameled aluminum
1950s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum, Brass
20th Century Space Age Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass, Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Aluminum, Steel
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Crystal, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Chrome
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Stainless Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Marble, Steel, Chrome
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Marble, Metal, Chrome
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Carrara Marble, Aluminum, Steel, Chrome
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Arredoluce Furniture
Plastic