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Achille Castiglioni Glass Flush Mounts Velella Lamps, Italy, 1960
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Two Velella opal flush mounts by Flos, Italy 1960 -sold individually
Set of 2 Achille Castiglioni flush mounts lamps, Italy, 1960. Sold individually. Wonderful lights by Flos made from opaline Murano glass and chrome details. They are in very good condition with no damage to the glass. They have been newly rewired. They work with one bulb per light (e27 100W max).
Dimensions are 15.74 x 7.1".
Literature
S. Polano, Achille Castiglioni: tutte le opere, 1938-2000, Electa, Milano 2001, p. 243.
- Creator:Flos (Manufacturer),Achille Castiglioni (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 7.1 in (18.04 cm)Diameter: 15.74 in (39.98 cm)
- Power Source:Hardwired
- Voltage:220-240v,110-150v
- Lampshade:Included
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1965
- Condition:Rewired. Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Vienna, AT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU993513608712
Flos
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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