Arteluce table lamp Pao2 design Matteo Thun, 1990s
About the Item
- Creator:Arteluce (Maker),Matteo Thun (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 22.84 in (58 cm)Diameter: 13.78 in (35 cm)
- Style:Space Age (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1990-1999
- Date of Manufacture:1990-1999
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Parma, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6799233602352
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 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, Sarfatti's 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.
Find vintage Arteluce table lamps, chandeliers, floor lamps and other lighting on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Parma, Italy
- Return PolicyThis item cannot be returned.
- Selenova Murano Glass Table Lamp, 1970sBy SelenovaLocated in Parma, ITTable lamp manufactured by Selenova 1970s. Painted metal base opal blown glass diffuser. Marked on the inside. In excellent condition.Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Table Lamps
MaterialsMurano Glass
- Large Table Lamp Attributed to Guzzini, 1970sLocated in Parma, ITLarge table lamp attributed to Guzzini 1970s. Painted metal foot with chromed metal discs, perpex diffuser in white color in two parts with cover. In excellent condition.Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi table lamp 'Bowling' by Lumenform, 1970sBy Lumenform, Cesare Leonardi and Franca StagiLocated in Parma, ITTable lamp model 'Bowling' design Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi for Lumenform, ca. 1970. Made of painted aluminum, adjustable. Original electrical system. In excellent condition. ...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Murano Blown Glass Table Lamp, 1970sLocated in Parma, IT1970s Murano blown glass table lamp. Base composed of two overlapping spheres of blown and ribbed glass, chrome-plated metal foot and jo...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Table Lamps
MaterialsMurano Glass
- Console Table in Exotic Wood with Resin Top, 1990sLocated in Parma, ITConsole table unique piece 'Golden eyes', handmade production marked Artigia, 1990s. In natural exotic wood, resin top with inclusions of brass fragments, handmade brass top support...Category
1990s Italian Arts and Crafts Console Tables
MaterialsBrass
- Ezio Didone table lamp production Valenti 1970sBy Ezio Didone, Valenti LuceLocated in Parma, ITTable lamp design Ezio Didone for Valenti 1970s. Cast iron base with polished steel cylinder, plexiglass diffuser, original electrical system. In excellent condition.Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Table Lamps
MaterialsSteel
- Pao table lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1993By Arteluce, Matteo ThunLocated in Athens, AttikiPao table light by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1993. Matteo Thun’s work is driven by the search for sophistication and subtle irony, which makes him something of a design dandy.When it...Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsGlass, Lacquer, Opaline Glass
- PAO Floor Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, Italy 1990By Arteluce, Matteo ThunLocated in Amsterdam, NLA beautiful elegant floor lamp, designed by Matteo Thun and manufactured by Flos in Italy around 1990. This is a rare first edition of this iconic piece! It has a warm brown woode...Category
1990s Italian Floor Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Arteluce "Pao" Table Lamp by Matteo ThunBy Ron RezekLocated in Seattle, WAVintage mushroom table lamp designed by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, Made in Italy.Category
Vintage 1980s North American Post-Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Matteo Thun & Andrea Lera Wwf Tower Bieffeplast, Table / Floor LampBy Matteo Thun, Bieffeplast, Andrea LeraLocated in Antwerpen, AntwerpMatteo Thun was one of the co-founders of the Memphis group. This design movement brought shape, form and style throughout the 80s, later on the Italian designer worked as a creative...Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsMetal
- Artemide Laguna 37 E16 Table Lamp in Gold by Matteo ThunBy Artemide, Matteo ThunLocated in Hicksville, NYNow available in stunning gold, Laguna table is a spherical table lamp with raised base provides a softly diffused light on the tabletop and casts a warm light in its surrounding env...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsAluminum
- Artemide Laguna 26 E26 Table Lamp in Gold by Matteo ThunBy Artemide, Matteo ThunLocated in Hicksville, NYNow available in stunning gold, Laguna table is a spherical table lamp with raised base provides a softly diffused light on the table top and casts a warm light in its surrounding en...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
MaterialsAluminum