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Achille Castiglioni & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Viscontea, Pendant Light Flos

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Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968) Viscontea A resin and metal pendant light, the internal metal frame covered with a sprayed resin coated shade. Produced by Flos, Italy. 1960s. Literature Domus n373, December 1960, p.129 Domus n411, February 1964, p.23 Ottagono n2, July 1966, p.17 Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1985, p.162 Sergio Polano, Achille Castiglioni, Pall Mall, 2012, p.176-177 Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 1000 Lights, Taschen, 2015, p.349. Note The Flos company was founded in Merano, by Cesare Cassina and Dino Gavina, at the beginning of the 60s. Inspired by the desire to propose innovative lighting products, they were joined by young talented designers such Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. Their first creations were made possible by one of Flos associates, Arturo Eisenkel, who had imported a new polymer coating originally produced in the United States. The cocoon resin was sprayed on a metal frame allowing daring shapes on a very light structure. Using this technique, the Scarpa duo created the Fantasma floor lamp and the Nuvola pendant light, while the Castiglioni brothers offered the Taraxacum and the Viscontea pendant lights. All these models became iconic design works. The "Viscontea" itself was part of the New York exhibition « Achille Castiglioni : Design Oct16, 1997-Jan6, 1998, Museum of Modern Art of New-York. One lamp belonging to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of New-York

Creator:

Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (Designer),Flos (Manufacturer),Achille Castiglioni (Designer),Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Diameter: 26.38 in (67 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Metal,Resin

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

1964

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Paris, FR

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2192338571342

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Imaginative lighting is a longtime hallmark of modern Italian design. Following in the footsteps of innovative companies such as Artemide and Arteluce, the company FLOS brought a fresh aesthetic philosophy to the Italian lighting field in the 1960s, one that would produce several of the iconic floor lamp, table lamp and pendant light designs of the era.

FLOS — Latin for “flower” — was founded in the northern town of Merano in 1962 by Cesare Cassina (of the famed Cassina furniture-making family) and Dino Gavina, a highly cultured businessman who believed that artistic ideas espoused in postwar Italy could inform commercial design. The two enlisted brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni as their first designers.

Even before FLOS was formally incorporated, the Castiglionis gave the firm one of its enduring successes with the Taraxacum pendant and associated designs made by spraying an elastic polymer on a metal armature. (George Nelson had pioneered the technique in the United States in the early 1950s.) For other designs, the brothers found inspiration in everyday objects. Suggestive of streetlights, their Arco floor lamp, with its chrome boom and ball-shaped shade sweeping out from a marble block base, has become a staple of modernist decors. Designing for FLOS since 1966, Tobia Scarpa has also been inspired by the commonplace. His folded-metal Foglio sconces resemble a shirt cuff; his carved marble Biagio table lamp looks like a jai alai basket.

In 1973, FLOS purchased Arteluce, the company founded in 1939 by Gino Sarfatti, and it continues to produce his designs. In recent decades, FLOS has contracted work from several noted designers, including Marcel Wanders and Jasper Morrison. As instantly recognizable as they are, many FLOS designs remain accessible. While FLOS lighting is the essence of modernity, its sleek, subtle designs can be used to strike a sculptural note in even traditional spaces.

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