Arteluce Furniture
Italian
The lighting maker Arteluce was one of the companies at the heart of the creative explosion in postwar Italian design. The firm’s founder and guiding spirit, Gino Sarfatti (1912–85), was an incessant technical and stylistic innovator who almost single-handedly reinvented the chandelier as a modernist lighting form.
Sarfatti attended the University of Genoa to study aeronautical engineering but was forced to drop out when his father’s company went out of business. His mechanical instincts led him to turn his attention to lighting design — and he founded Arteluce as a small workshop in Milan in 1939. Sarfatti’s father was a Jew, so the family fled to Switzerland in 1943, but after the war — largely thanks to Sarfatti’s insistence on efficiency of design and manufacture — Arteluce quickly established itself as a top firm.
Though Sarfatti continued as chief designer through the 1950s and ’60s, he also enlisted other designers such as Franco Albini and Massimo Vignelli to contribute work. Sarfatti sold Arteluce to FLOS — a rival Italian lighting maker — in 1973 and retired to pursue a more traditional avocation: collecting and dealing rare postage stamps.
Sarfatti is regarded by many collectors as a pioneer of minimalist design. He pared down his lighting works to their essentials, focusing on practical aspects such as flexibility of use. His most famous light, the 2097 chandelier, is a brilliant example of reductive modernist design, featuring a central cylinder from which branches numerous supporting fixtures extending like spokes on a wheel.
Similarly, Sarfatti's 566 table lamp is a simple canister, able to be raised or lowered on a stem, holding a half-chrome bulb. Despite the marked functionality of his designs, Sarfatti did have a sprightly side: His 534 table lamp, with its cluster of rounded enameled shades, resembles a vase full of flowers, the Sputnik chandelier (model 2003) was inspired by fireworks and the brightly colored plastic disks of the 2072 chandelier look like lollipops. No matter the style, Sarfatti concentrated first and foremost on the character of light created — and any Arteluce lamp is a modernist masterpiece.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Creator: Arteluce
1980s Italian Translucent Blue Glass Table Lamp by Arteluce
By Arteluce
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A dramatic and geometric table lamp in translucent blue glass with attached white plastic diffusers perched atop a weighted and swiveling conical stee...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Steel
Pair of Model 257 Wall Lights by Sergio Asti for Arteluce
By Sergio Asti, Arteluce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of model 257 wall lights by Sergio Asti for Arteluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1960s. Frosted glass diffusers, chrome armature. Retains original manufacture...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Chrome
Floor Lamps Model 1074 by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Brussels, BE
Floor lamps model 1074 by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce - Two set available
price for on set of three.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Early 600P Light by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in London, GB
Early 600P light by Sarfatti for Arteluce in excellent condition.
Category
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Gino Sarfatti Floor Lamp Model 1044, Made in Italy, 1952, Arteluce Production
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
Gino Sarfatti rare floor lamp model 1044 with double reflector for direct light e indirect in lacquered metal, brass structure and base in white marble.
Produced by Arteluce, Italy,...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Marble, Brass
Model 524 Table Lamp by Franco Albini & Franca Helg for Arteluce, 1960s
By Arteluce, Franco Albini and Franca Helg
Located in Rotterdam, NL
Model 524 table lamp designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg and manufactured by Arteluce.
The model consists of eight rectangular transparent Perspex panels that are placed in ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Ceiling Light by Gino Sarfatti, circa 1961
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Berlin, DE
Ceiling light "Model 2113"
Blackened aluminium, opaline glass, lower cover texturized glass
Dimension: H 19 cm, ø 21 cm
Manufacturer Arteluce
Inside "Arteluce" label.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Gino Sarfatti Model #21 Red Perforated Sconces for Arteluce, circa 1955
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Gino Sarfatti model #21 red perforated sconces for Arteluce, circa 1955. Executed in red painted perforated aluminum and brass. Adjustab...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass, Metal
Gino Sarfatti, Rare Table Lamp Model 600c, 1966 for Arteluce, Italy
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Munster, NRW
Original table lamp 600c, designed by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce in 1966.
Made of black lacquered aluminum and a pouch support in black sky leather, filled with lead shot.
This t...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
'Model 1073' 2 Floor Lamps by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Brussels, BE
'Model 1073' 2 floor lamps by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
Measures: Height a the small one 182 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Suspension Light by Arteluce
By Arteluce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Suspension light by Arteluce. Manufactured in Italy, circa 1970s. Enameled metal. Rewired for U.S. junction boxes. Takes one Halogen 200w maximum bul...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Gino Sarfatti model 2095/9 ceiling lamp for Arteluce, Italy, 1958
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Milan, IT
Gino Sarfatti model 2095/9 ceiling lamp for Arteluce, Italy, 1958
Original wiring and labels.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Lamp Chromed Metal Enameled Aluminum 1960s G. Sarfatti Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Milano, IT
Ceiling lamp, chromed metal, enameled aluminum.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
V. Gregotti, L. Meneghetti and G. Stoppino Model 2051 Floor Lamp for Arteluce
By Lodovico Meneghetti, Giotto Stoppino and Vittorio Gregotti, Arteluce
Located in Milan, IT
Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino floor lamp for Arteluce.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Nickel
Suspension Light by Arteluce
By Arteluce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Suspension light by Arteluce. Manufactured in Italy, circa 1970s. Enameled metal. Takes one E27 75w maximum bulb. Bulb provided as a one time courtesy.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce Pair of Sconces Model 113b Midcentury
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Rovereta, SM
Gino Sarfatti model 113b white lacquered metal and aluminium.
1960, Italy.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Table Lamp by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, Italy, 1950s
By Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp with a triangular bent brass holding a red painted lamp shade. Original label.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce Three-Light Pendant
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce pendant chandelier with three glass globe lights hung on black perforated enameled metal structures suspended from three-arm canopy. The glass globes are b...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Arteluce 1978 White, Blue Frosted Glass Halloween Pendant
By Arteluce
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Beautiful Italian modern frosted glass pendant in warm coconut white with blue circular perforations around the base. Model "Halloween". B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Acrylic, Glass
Floor Lamp Model No.1007 by Helg/Albini 1962, Arteluce, Italy
By Arteluce, Franco Albini and Franca Helg
Located in Berlin, DE
Floor lamp model no. 1007 by Franca Helg/Franco Albini 1962, Arteluce, Italy.
The construction is chromed brass, the reflector is movable and the lamps glass is satined and lacquer...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti Model 596 Table Lamp for Arteluce
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gino Sarfatti Seldom seen Model 596 table lamp. Gino Saratti Started and Designed many Classic Lamp Designs for Areluce. His designs shaped the Italian Design Movement! He was the fi...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
1950s Italian Wall Light by Vittoriano Vigano for Arteluce
By Arteluce, Vittoriano Vigano
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A wall light or sconce having an asymmetrical adjustable shade in painted white finish with brass stem and bracket.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Model 2079 Pendant by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model 2079 pendant by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, 1955. Opaline glass diffuser, reflector with reversed micro perforated aluminum cup...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Table Lamp Model 565 Gino Sarfatti Arteluce, 1950s
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Rovereta, SM
Model 565 a direct light table lamp designed in 1956, has distinctive steel spring that holds the spotlight reflector.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Steel
Vittoriano Vigano for Arteluce Rare Italian Floor Lamp Model 1047
By Arteluce, Vittoriano Vigano
Located in Rovereta, SM
Floor lamp Vittoriano Vigano by Arteluce , circa 1951, model 1047 with black lacquered aluminum adjustable shade on brass stem and tripod base, with original manufacturer's label ins...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair of 1950s Gino Sarfatti Model 114 3-Shade Articulating Wall Lights
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of 1950s Gino Sarfatti model 114 3-shade articulating wall lights. Comprised of 3 white painted metal perforated shades mounted on a polished brass "hal...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Rare Max Huber Ashtray for Arteluce
By Arteluce
Located in Milan, IT
Rare Max Huber ashtray for Arteluce,
1960's.
Original label.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Pair of White‚ Drop 1’ Wall Lamps by Marc Sadler for Arteluce, Italy, 1993
By Arteluce
Located in Hagenbach, DE
A pair of wall lamps by Marc Sadler for Arteluce made in Italy in 1993. The shade of the lamp is made of silicon and has a beautiful white color. The base is made of hard plastic.
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Plastic, Silicone
Gino Sarfatti Table Lamps Model 540P by Arteluce, Italy, 1968
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Fantastic pair of table or wall lamps model 540P designed by Gino Sarfatti and manufactured by Arteluce, Italy, 1968. These table lamps have a plexiglass bas...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Gino Sarfatti SP/ 16 For Arteluce Unique Brass Bubble Pendant Lamp, 1950, Italy
By Arteluce, Gino Sarfatti, Archimede Seguso
Located in The Hague, NL
Rare beautiful pendant lamp by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, 1950s, Italy.
Model number: SP/ 16.
This special pendant lamp, has five heavy massive bubble glass, made by Archimede Segu...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of Sconces by Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce, Italy, circa 1956
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
Each sconce composed of a burnished brass structure with two arms, shielded by a white bent acrylic shade.
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Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti Four Sconces Per Arteluce, 1955
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Rovereta, SM
Four sconces designed by Gino Sarfatti and edited by Arteluce in 1955.Adjustable reflectors in coloured lacquered aluminium. Arm, pivot and base in polished brass. Litt. "Gino Sarfat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti Wall Lamps Model 237/3 Arteluce, 1959
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Pair of wall lamps model 237/3 designed by Gino Sarfatti, manufactured by Arteluce, Italy 1959. This pair of wall lamps are an iconic and famous design by Sarfatti. There are many di...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Articulating Desk Lamp by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce
By Angelo Lelii, Arteluce
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A Mid-Century Modern desk lamp designed by Angelo Lelli with gooseneck arms and a counter-weight and wire system attached to two chrome supports on a marble base. Made by Arredoluce ...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Marble, Chrome, Steel
1950s by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce Midcentury Italian Design Large Wall Sconce
By Scarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Brescia, IT
Brass frame and frosted glass shades
Rare model.
Slight sign to one glass
Excellent condition
Perfect working order.
Category
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti Chandelier Model 2095/5 by Arteluce, Italy, 1958
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Very nice chandelier model 2095/5 designed by Gino Sarfatti, manufactured by Arteluce, Italy, 1958. This nice and impressive chandelier has a rare white ceiling plate and original wh...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare 573 Lamp by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, 1956
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Paris, FR
Rare table lamp by Gino Sarfatti. Model 573 produced by Arteluce from 1956.
Adjustable spotlight in anodized aluminium, with screen in green methacrylate. Arms in chrome-plated br...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Iron, Brass, Aluminum
Gino Sarfatti Wall/Table Lamp Model 7 Arteluce, 1957
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Rare wall/table lamp version of model 7 designed by Gino Sarfatti, manufactured by Arteluce, Italy 1957. I have never seen this fairly unique version before. T...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Italian Mid-Century Modern Table / Desk Lamp #600 by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
Anachronistic Italian Mid-Century table lamp #600 with Vinyl Sack filled with lead pellets as the base and a single socket and silver reflector bulb. Sarfatti's inventiveness and hum...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Italian 1950s Flush Light
By Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
A 1950s Italian three light polished brass and white enamel flush light by the firm Arteluce.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Gino Sarfatti Chandeliere
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in New York, NY
Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce five-light hanging fixture #2095. Cascading light with five glass globes hanging at different heights. Each orb contains 1 Edison sized socket. A beautiful...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Stephan Copeland Set of Two Desk, Table "Tango" Lamps for Arteluce
By Copeland, Arteluce
Located in Antwerp, BE
Set of two desk lamps model "Tango" designed by Stephan Copeland for Arteluce, Italy.
Flexible soft arms, adjustable in many positions.
Height when fully...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Iron
1962 Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce Floor Lamp, model 1089
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Italian floor lamp by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, with a plug marked Stilnovo
Original condition.
Please Note: Missing the glass shade
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Adjustable Desk Lamp by Gino Sarfatti
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A desk lamp having a sculptural white textured enameled pedestal base supporting a chrome gooseneck stem and cylindrical shade.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Set of 2 Sconces by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, Italy
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Antwerp, BE
Set of four-light sconces by Gino Sarfatti, 1960st. Featering a Midcentury metal chrome hanging wall lamp with four bakelite sockets each. Very nice wall hanging up-lights for hallwa...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Pair of vintage Italian Gino Sarfatti Model 540 table lamps for Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Highclere, Newbury
Pair of original vintage Italian Gino Sarfatti Model 540 table lamps for Arteluce, 1968
The 540 is, unfortunately, one of those designs that has many listings that are being sold as...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Gino Sarfatti 1086 floor lamp Arteluce Italy 1961 black
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Rare minimalist floor lamp model 1086 designed by Gino Sarfatti and manufactured by Arteluce, Milano 1961. This is the floor lamp version of a series of lights that Sarfatti designed...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Table Lamp ‘Tikal 1555’ By Pier Giuseppe Ramella For Arteluce, Italy 1980s
By Pier Giuseppe Ramella, Arteluce
Located in Hellouw, NL
Table lamp 'Tikal 1555' by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce.Did the designer Pier Giuseppe Ramella want to make an abstract reference to the Mayan city of Tikal with this lamp? The...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Plastic, Glass
Yellow Falene Table Lamp by Piero De Martini for Arteluce, 1980
By Piero De Martini, Arteluce
Located in UTRECHT, NL
Yellow table lamp, model Falene. Produced by Arteluce circa 1980s. The designer Piero De Martini is an architect who spent most of his career working for Cassina. The Falene is made ...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Metal
Gino Sarfatti Eclipse Floor Lamp, Italy, 1960's
By Gino Sarfatti, Arteluce
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A chrome-plated and enameled aluminum floor lamp with powder-coated steel base, acrylic shade
Decal manufacturer's label to shade ‘AL Milano Arteluce Made in Italy’.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arteluce Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Arteluce furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Arteluce furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Arteluce furniture, although black editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Arteluce were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Gae Aulenti, and Ercole Barovier. Prices for Arteluce furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $167 and can go as high as $222,496, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $3,774.