Pendant by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce, Italy circa 1950
View Similar Items
Pendant by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce, Italy circa 1950
About the Item
- Creator:Arredoluce (Manufacturer),Angelo Lelii (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 35.44 in (90 cm)Diameter: 19.69 in (50 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1950
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Berlin, DE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98312763122
Angelo Lelii
Angelo Lelii’s energetic and imaginative floor lamps, sconces and chandeliers often reflected his singular personality — whimsical but practical. He is responsible for some of the most delightfully eye-pleasing but functional works in the history of Italian mid-century modern lighting design.
Lelii was born Paolo Angelo Lelii in the seaport town of Ancona and moved to Milan when he was quite young. Not much is known about his early life — online resources frequently have his last name misspelled “Lelli” — except that he studied at the Superior Institute of Industrial Art in nearby Monza.
While there was no shortage of pioneering work being done in the field of mid-century modern lighting design, Lelii was a visionary whose dream was to create technologically advanced lighting that embodied the simple lines of modern design but would be defined by his own imaginative twists. In 1943, Lelii opened his first workshop in a tiny basement in Monza, under the name Arredoluce. A few years later, he designed the single-light, bent-arm Tris floor lamp. Later that year, he exhibited his Triennale floor lamp at the Milan Triennale VIII and garnered wide acclaim. This iconic, slender lamp features three adjustable arms with enameled aluminum shades.
Lelii’s sculptural fixtures in brass and cast iron appeared in the acclaimed design journal Domus, and he embarked on high-profile collaborations with Italian modernist legends such as Gio Ponti — a giant of architecture and design as well as a founder of Domus — Memphis Group member Ettore Sottsass Jr. and the brothers Castiglioni (formally known as Achille, Pier Giacomo and Livio).
Massive success followed for Arredoluce from the late 1950s and into the 1960s. For Lelii, there was his seminal Stella ceiling lamp, featuring opaque, acid-etched glass globe shades; his minimalist Cobra table lamp, which was one of the world’s first low voltage light fixtures; and his aptly named Eye floor lamp. Lelii continued to oversee design and production at his revolutionary lighting firm until his death in 1979.
Find vintage Angelo Lelii lighting on 1stDibs.
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 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 1947), 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.
- Wall Light by Angelo Lelli, circa 1950By Angelo Lelii, ArredoluceLocated in Berlin, DEWall light brass construction, flexible arms, reflectors yellow/black lacquered aluminium Dimension: L. 75 cm 1 arm Design Angelo Lelli, circa 1950 Manufacturer Arredoluce, Italy.Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsAluminum, Brass
- Chrome and White Lacquered Pendant by Angelo Lelli, Mod. '14071', c.a. 1962Located in Berlin, DEThis very rare, complex yet easy ceiling lamp '14071' by Angelo Lelli is made of chrome and white lacquered metal. It has three light sources coming from round, spherical cones. The ...Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsMetal, Chrome
- Huge Exceptional Chandelier by Stilnovo, Italy, circa 1950By StilnovoLocated in Berlin, DEChandelier by Stilnovo, consists of 24 lights bulbs, Italy, circa 1950.Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass, Metal
- Table Lamp / Angelo Lelli / 1954By Angelo Lelii, ArredoluceLocated in Berlin, DEThe table lamps with their industrial look were designed by the Italian designer Angelo Lelli in 1954 for Arredoluce. The lamp, model 12445 Cartuccia, are very elaborately made. The...Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
$9,347 / set - Pendant by Stilnovo, Italy, 1958By StilnovoLocated in Berlin, DEPendant by Stilnovo, Italy, 1958. Two available.Category
Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsAluminum, Steel, Chrome
$8,152 / item - Pendant, Model "Barbarella", by Gino Vistosi, Midcentury, Italy, 1960By Gino VistosiLocated in Berlin, DE"Barbarella" by Gino Vistosi, executed in brass, with opaline glass and pastel colored dots. Measures: H 80 cm, Ø 40 cm. Gino Vistosi (1925-1980) was an Italian visual artist. H...Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass
- Pendant by Angelo Lelli for ArredoluceBy Angelo LeliiLocated in Los Angeles, CAGlass and brass pendant by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce. Literature: Bibliography Domus, n. 390, 1962.Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass
- Published Italian Chandelier by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce, circa 1950By Arredoluce, Angelo LeliiLocated in Merida, YucatanLarge brass and opaline glass, five-light Italian chandelier designed by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce, circa 1950. This chandelier is pictured in the recently published Arredoluce bo...Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass
- Midcentury Chandelier by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce Italy, 1950By Arredoluce, Angelo LeliiLocated in Lisboa, Lisboa9 Llights chandelier designed by Angelo Lelii for Arredoluce around 1950. Polished brass frame, metal diffusers. The chandelier designed by Lelii takes the typology of modern forms w...Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsMetal
- Angelo Lelli & Arredoluce Pendant LampBy ArredoluceLocated in Los Angeles, CARare "Triennale" pendant lamp by Angello Lelli & Arredoluce. Chromed metal structure holding three movable light arms at the lower part with adjustable p...Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsMetal, Chrome
$12,400 Sale Price20% Off - Rare Chandelier by Angelo Lelli for ArredoluceBy Angelo Lelii, ArredoluceLocated in Los Angeles, CARare Chandelier by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1950. Five-arm chandelier with colorful acrylic top half shades and opaline glass bottom dif...Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass
- Rare Chandelier by Angelo Lelli for ArredoluceBy Arredoluce, Angelo LeliiLocated in New York, NYRose gold plated brass, wire and frosted opal globes. A very rare fixture that we’ve never before seen on the market. Six E12, (candelabra) sockets.Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
MaterialsBrass, Wire