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Early Arco lamp designed by Pier Giacomo & Achille Castiglioni for Flos, 1962

About the Item

Arco Floor lamp designed by Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos in 1962 manufactured by Flos, Italy in the 1960ies. With makers bedge on inner side of the lamp shade. Famous amongst modern Italian designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni have widely contributed to design furniture. Their casual attitude towards designing objects helped create a new style that clearly can be described as already postmodern. Characteristic for their attitude towards designing objects is the correspondence between all parts of the object in combination with their fresh and revolutionary ideas that added new ways to the common use of things. With a clear concept they reflect on design practice and yet found invitingly fresh and humorous ideas in detail and combinations. Visually appearent is every design decision regarding form and materiality. The well thought through components literally speak about their function, often in a new way. Design, Materials and engineering correspond just perfectly. The Arco lamp in it‘s title is a great Arc lamp, consisting of a counterweight in form of the marble base and the Aluminium lamp shade, connected by an adjustable steel rod that helps to position it above a desk or dining table. Very unusual is that the Arco lamp was thought up to replace a pendant lamp above the table. The two part shade allows to move the outer shade and to cast light were it is preferred. The graceful Arch made from bent steel profile spans up to 2 meters, the Carrara marble base works as a counterweight. A pierced hole near the top allows to use a wooden dowel to easily move it around. The Arco lamp is in overall very good vintage condition with few signs of use. Few scratches can be found in the aluminum and steel parts. Lamp will be disassembled for shipping. A second lamp is available on request

Creator:

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

Dimensions:

Height: 94.49 in (240 cm)Width: 78.75 in (200 cm)Depth: 11.82 in (30 cm)

Power Source:

Plug-in

Voltage:

220-240v

Lampshade:

Included

Style:

Post-Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Marble,Steel

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

1960ies

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Offenburg, DE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU6681235026582

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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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