Pier Giuseppe Ramella Table Lamps

Double lighting Giada table lamp designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce. A large lamp in white, black and blue, this lamp can be lit in three ways using two bulbs to give...

Table lamp Tikkal was designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce circa 1980. The fan shaped frosted glass shade may rotate on its base showing either an off-white convex plastic...

Table lamp designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Yamagiwa. The name is Tikal. Blue glass with metal base. E26 or E27 light bulb. Work with 100-240V.  

Extraordinary pair of Tikal 1555 table lamps designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Flos–Arteluce. This pair is in wonderful vintage condition. Please see photos. Circa 1980 This is quite the pair of lamps! Designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Italian lighting company Arteluce. This pair of lamps is just extraordinary with their elegant fan shaped frosted glass shades which sit atop an enameled conical shaped base of dark gray. They rotate on the base showing either an off-white convex plastic lens on one side or a soft gray lens on the other. They retain their original Flos tag and Atelier International Lighting tag on the bottom of each lamp. Their condition is flawless except for the following: the off-white lens on one of the lamps has yellowed slighting possibly due to an oversized bulb being used; and one of the plastic lens fasteners on that lamp has been repaired as well; and the outer cover of one of the cords is worn but is not hazardous as it is only a secondary cover. This in no way takes away from their usability or beauty. These are a beautifully matched pair of lamps but, we will entertain selling them individually if you so desire. Please contact us for individual pricing. Italian lighting design company Arteluce was established in 1939 by the young Venetian designer-entrepreneur Gino Sarfatti. Political upheaval at the time forced Sarfatti to abandon his aeronautical engineering degree in Genoa and move with his family to Milan. There, despite a lack of formal design training, Sarfatti embarked on a lighting career. Yet it is arguably because he was wholly self-taught that Sarfatti immersed himself in the full lifecycle of the design process, from conception to production, collaborating with artisans and architects to create stronger, lighter, and cheaper modernist lamps than Italy has seen before. Arteluce quickly established itself as a successful and visionary lighting brand thanks to Sarfatti’s commitment to technical, material, and production research. He designed over 400 lamps in his lifetime (though some sources say it was as many as 700), which are celebrated for their minimalist yet expressive aesthetic and experimental materials. In the 1960s, Arteluce became a creative hub for Italy’s most talented designers, producing designs by major talents, such as Franco Albini, Cini Boeri, Franca Helg, Ico Parisi, and Massimo Vignelli. The lighting installation for the Teatro Regio opera house in Turin—one of Arteluce's last projects, which comprised hundreds of pendant plexiglas...

Italian lamp designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella and produced by Arteluce. Elegant fan shaped frosted glass shade on a dark grey enameled metal...

1985 Pair of Italian lamps designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella and produced by Arteluce, with an elegant fan shape, one blue and one white, the gl...