Arredoluce

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 the 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 1952), 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 surreal 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’ Turbino table lamp of 1951, for example, is a remarkably early example of minimalist design. The company both fostered the tradition-minded aspect of Gio 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, lighting by Arredoluce includes some of the most diverse, remarkable — and collectible — designs of the late 20th century.
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Marble, Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Wire, Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Carrara Marble, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass, Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Marble
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Carrara Marble, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Stainless Steel
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass, Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Carrara Marble, Brass
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass, Nickel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass, Iron
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass, Enamel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass, Enamel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass
1850s Italian Mid-Century Modern Antique Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Arredoluce
Opal, Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass, Iron
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Chrome, Wire
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Nickel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Chrome, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Steel, Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Minimalist Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Aluminum, Brass
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Brass, Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Arredoluce
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Opal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Arredoluce
Marble, Aluminum, Brass