RARE Sistema Grall floor lamp by Ferrari, Pagani, and Perversi for Arteluce

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About the Item

Extremely rare 'Sistema Grall' floor lamp manufactured by Arteluce, designed by Ferrari, Luciano Pagani, and Angelo Perversi in charcoal grey metal (base textured, pole and headstand in glossy coated finish) and glass. Awarded with the Compasso d'Oro in 1991. Published in Gramigna, Design Italiano 1950-2000, (1st edition published in 2003) Creator: Arteluce - FLOS (Manufacturer) Dimensions: Height: 76.38 in (194 cm)Width: 14.57 in (37 cm)Depth: 10.24 in (26 cm) Style: Modern (Of the Period) Materials and Techniques: Molded Glass, Metal and aluminium-injected parts Place of Origin: Italy Period: 1980-1989 Date of Manufacture: ca.1984 Condition: Excellent, near mint condition (fully dismantled with every single part revised, re-painted re-coated, checked, and tested Shipping: Worldwide is always welcome! PROFESSIONALLY packed with insurance, handling, and materials already included in your freight cost. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLEASE NOTE: To maintain the integrity of these valuable pieces this lot will be shipped fully insured, professionally boxed, and offered with a trackable shipping freight worldwide which is already included in the freight cost presented for your location. 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back Have a look for more original art pieces in my shop. Photographs in this listing are image quotations from the work that is offered for sale. © Copyright holder. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REF. Arteluce The lighting maker Arteluce was one of the companies at the heart of the creative explosion in postwar Italian design. The firm’s founder and guiding spirit, Gino Sarfatti (1912–85), was an incessant technical and stylistic innovator who almost single-handedly reinvented the chandelier as a modernist lighting form. Sarfatti attended the University of Genoa to study aeronautical engineering but was forced to drop out when his father’s company went out of business. His mechanical instincts led him to turn his attention to lighting design — and he founded Arteluce as a small workshop in Milan in 1939. Sarfatti’s father was a Jew, so the family fled to Switzerland in 1943, but after the war — largely thanks to Sarfatti’s insistence on the efficiency of design and manufacture — Arteluce quickly established itself as a top firm. Though Sarfatti continued as chief designer through the 1950s and ’60s, he also enlisted other designers such as Franco Albini and Massimo Vignelli to contribute work. Sarfatti sold Arteluce to FLOS — a rival Italian lighting maker — in 1973 and retired to pursue a more traditional avocation: collecting and dealing rare postage stamps. Sarfatti is regarded by many collectors as a pioneer of minimalist design. He pared down his lighting works to their essentials, focusing on practical aspects such as flexibility of use. His most famous light, the 2097 chandelier, is a brilliant example of reductive modernist design, featuring a central cylinder from which branches numerous supporting fixtures extending like spokes on a wheel. Similarly, his 566 table lamp is a simple canister, able to be raised or lowered on a stem, holding a half-chrome bulb. Despite the marked functionality of his designs, Sarfatti did have a sprightly side: His 534 table lamp, with its cluster of rounded enameled shades, resembles a vase full of flowers, the Sputnik chandelier (model 2003) was inspired by fireworks and the brightly colored plastic disks of the 2072 chandelier look like lollipops. No matter the style, Sarfatti concentrated first and foremost on the character of light created — and any Arteluce lamp is a modernist masterpiece.

Dimensions:
Height: 75.99 in (193 cm)Width: 14.57 in (37 cm)Depth: 10.24 in (26 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Aluminum,Metal,Stained Glass,Cold-Painted,Powder-Coated
Period:
1980-1989
Date of Manufacture:
1985
Condition:
Refinished.
Seller Location:
Firenze, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU7486239196622