Arredoluce Easels
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.
1950s Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Wood
20th Century French Arredoluce Easels
Wood
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Arredoluce Easels
Elm, Oak
Mid-20th Century Arts and Crafts Arredoluce Easels
Beech
1930s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Wood
Early 20th Century British Arredoluce Easels
Walnut
Early 1900s French Antique Arredoluce Easels
Wood
Late 20th Century Arredoluce Easels
Bamboo
Mid-20th Century English Campaign Arredoluce Easels
Bamboo
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Arredoluce Easels
Brass
1970s French Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass
2010s American Modern Arredoluce Easels
Brass, Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Easels
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Steel, Nickel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Arredoluce Easels
Mid-20th Century Italian Arredoluce Easels
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce Easels
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Aluminum, Brass, Enamel
1970s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Aluminum
1950s Italian Vintage Arredoluce Easels
Brass