Tornado Chandelier by Elio Martinelli

Exceptional set of five chandeliers by Kinkeldey in nickeled brass with twelve clear glass globes. Each chandelier can be stacked into an other to create an impressively tall piec...

Mid-century chandelier by the Italian brand Stilux, this chandelier is made of six plexi rectangular sconces jointed together by a bent sheet of painted metal and brass structure.

Sputnik style chandelier designed by Oscar Torlasco, made of brass and enameled metal. Six arms of light with white or black cones are set into two concentric brass arcs, pointing t...

Kinetic chandelier designed by Mario Marenco for Artemide made of cut aluminium panels intertwined together to form this square shaped chandelier that change its apparence depending ...

A large model 1770 "Tornado" ceiling light by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli Luce. This light is comprised of interlocking steel bands which join a central stem in a gracefully ge...

"Calotta" ceiling lamp by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli. Steel bars folded and curved compose this beautiful pendant lamp.

Elio Martinelli was an Italian lighting designer. He founded his own business of lighting in 1950 in Lucca (Toscana): Martinelli Luce. Steel bars folded and curved compose these be...

A rare ceiling lamp or chandelier (model Step) with a semisphere lampshade in white lacquered aluminum, it was designed by Elio Martinelli and produced by the Italian company, Martinelli Luce during the 1970s. The concentric shapes repeated in a precise sequence, from which the Step lamp is structured, reveal an attitude of the designer in search of geometric essentiality. It is a lamp characterized by simple and functional lines in which all the elements are inserted into each other reducing to a disk a few centimeters high, with closing system and telescopic opening. Its particular metal lamellar structure recalls some of the most famous lamps by Alvar Aalto and the hexagonal lamp designed in 1959 by Bruno Munare for Danese. Literature: Emiliana Martinelli, Elio Martinelli e Martinelli...