Ferruccio Laviani FL/Y Blue Pendant Lamp for Kartell
View Similar Items
Ferruccio Laviani FL/Y Blue Pendant Lamp for Kartell
About the Item
- Creator:Ferruccio Laviani (Designer),Kartell (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Diameter: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2000s
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor scratches to blue plastic.
- Seller Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5392226934542
Kartell
The Italian design giant Kartell transformed plastic from the stuff of humble household goods into a staple of luxury design in the 1960s. Founded in Milan by Italian chemical engineer Giulio Castelli (1920–2006) and his wife Anna Ferrieri (1918–2006), Kartell began as an industrial design firm, producing useful items like ski racks for automobiles and laboratory equipment designed to replace breakable glass with sturdy plastic. Even as companies like Olivetti and Vespa were making Italian design popular in the 1950s, typewriters and scooters were relatively costly, and Castelli and Ferrieri wanted to provide Italian consumers with affordable, stylish goods.
They launched a housewares division of Kartell in 1953, making lighting fixtures and kitchen tools and accessories from colorful molded plastic. Consumers in the postwar era were initially skeptical of plastic goods, but their affordability and infinite range of styles and hues eventually won devotees. Tupperware parties in the United States made plastic storage containers ubiquitous in postwar homes, and Kartell’s ingenious designs for juicers, dustpans, and dish racks conquered Europe. Kartell designer Gino Colombini was responsible for many of these early products, and his design for the KS 1146 Bucket won the Compasso d’Oro prize in 1955.
Buoyed by its success in the home goods market, Kartell introduced its Habitat division in 1963. Designers Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper created the K1340 (later called the K 4999) children’s chair that year, and families enjoyed their bright colors and light weight, which made them easy for kids to pick up and move. In 1965, Joe Colombo (1924–78) created one of Kartell’s few pieces of non-plastic furniture, the 4801 chair, which sits low to the ground and comprised of just three curved pieces of plywood. (In 2012, Kartell reissued the chair in plastic.) Colombo followed up on the success of the 4801 with the iconic 4867 Universal Chair in 1967, which, like Verner Panton’s S chair, is made from a single piece of plastic. The colorful, stackable injection-molded chair was an instant classic. That same year, Kartell introduced Colombo’s KD27 table lamp. Ferrierei’s cylindrical 4966 Componibili storage module debuted in 1969.
Kartell achieved international recognition for its innovative work in 1972, when a landmark exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz called “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. That show introduced American audiences to the work of designers such as Gaetano Pesce; Ettore Sottsass, founder of the Memphis Group; and the firms Archizoom and Superstudio (both firms were among Italy's Radical design groups) — all of whom were using wit, humor and unorthodox materials to create a bracingly original interior aesthetic.
Castelli and Ferrieri sold Kartell to Claudio Luti, their son-in-law, in 1988, and since then, Luti has expanded the company’s roster of designers.
Kartell produced Ron Arad’s Bookworm wall shelf in 1994, and Philippe Starck’s La Marie chair in 1998. More recently, Kartell has collaborated with the Japanese collective Nendo, Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola and glass designer Tokujin Yoshioka, among many others. Kartell classics can be found in museums around the world, including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 1999, Claudio Luti established the Museo Kartell to tell the company’s story, through key objects from its innovative and colorful history.
Find vintage Kartell tables, seating, table lamps and other furniture on 1stDibs.
- Mario Bellini Shanghai Gold Vase for KartellBy Mario Bellini, KartellLocated in Miami, FLGold Shanghai vase designed by Mario Bellini for Kartell. A multi-faceted vase widening from the base to the top in a swirling motion. Shanghai is like ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsPlastic
- Philippe Starck Dr. No Cream Dining Chair for KartellBy Kartell, Philippe StarckLocated in Miami, FLCream Dr. No chair with aluminum legs by Philippe Starck and produced by Kartell, Italy.Category
1990s Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsAluminum
- Philippe Starck & Eugeni Quitllet White Masters Chairs for Kartell - a PairBy Eugeni Quitllet, Kartell, Philippe StarckLocated in Miami, FLPair of white masters chairs by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet for Kartell. Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet pay homage to three different mid...Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsPlastic
- Mid-Century Danish Modern Copper Cone Pendant Ceiling Lamp, 1950sLocated in Miami, FLMidcentury Danish / Scandinavian Modern copper pendant lamp with nice patina for age, circa 1950s.Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsCopper
- Rolf Heide "Tuba" Floor Lamp for Anta, GermanyBy George KovacsLocated in Miami, FLRolf Heide designed floor lamp for Anta, Germany. The Tuba floor lamp has been designed in a chic industrial style, but with a soft enough finish to make i...Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Floor Lamps
MaterialsAluminum
- Robert Sonneman Desk or Table Lamp for George Kovacs, 1990By George Kovacs, Robert SonnemanLocated in Miami, FLDark bronzed metal base with wood accent and sandblasted opaque glass shade desk or table lamp by Robert Sonneman for George Kovacs, 1990.Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Kartell Medium FL/Y Pendant Light in Blue by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYAn essential lamp which is characterized by the “subtle interpretations of the theme. Made in transparent methacrylate in blue, the cover is not perfectly hemispherical but the cut-o...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin
- Kartell Small FL/Y Pendant Light in Sky Blue by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYFL/Y pendant light small in sky blue. It is a collection of pendant lamps designed by Ferruccio Laviani in 2002. Dimensions: Shade height: 11 in.; Diameter: 15 in.; Unit weight: 1...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin
- Kartell Small FL/Y Pendant Light in Yellow by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYFL/Y pendant light small in yellow. It is a collection of pendant lamps designed by Ferruccio Laviani in 2002. Dimensions: Shade height: 11 in.; Diameter: 15 in.; Unit weight: 1.0...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin
- Kartell Small FL/Y Pendant Light in Orange by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYFL/Y pendant light small in orange. It is a collection of pendant lamps designed by Ferruccio Laviani in 2002. Dimensions: Shade height: 11 in.; Diameter: 15 in.; Unit weight: 1.0...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin
- Kartell Small FL/Y Pendant Light in Crystal by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYFL/Y pendant light small in crystal. It is a collection of pendant lamps designed by Ferruccio Laviani in 2002. Dimensions: Shade height 11 in.; diameter 15 in.; unit weight 1.08 ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin
- Kartell Medium FL/Y Pendant Light in Cola by Ferruccio LavianiBy Ferruccio Laviani, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYAn essential lamp which is characterised by the “subtle interpretations of the theme. Made in transparent methacrylate in gold color, the cover is not perfectly hemispherical but the...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsResin