Arredoluce Table Lamps
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.
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Steel, Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass, Steel, Iron
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass, Chrome, Iron
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Aluminum, Chrome, Nickel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Carrara Marble, Brass, Aluminum
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Enamel, Steel, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Steel, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass, Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Brass, Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Chrome, Wire
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass, Steel, Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Steel
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Chrome
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
Arredoluce Table Lamps
1960s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Steel, Brass, Aluminum, Chrome
1960s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Magnets
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass, Nickel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass, Steel, Aluminum
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Chrome, Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Chrome, Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Travertine, Chrome, Wire, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Marble, Aluminum
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Table Lamps
Travertine, Marble, Steel