Benetton Folding Table Lamp Memphis Style, Italy 1980s

Annibale Oste Style, Lamp - Table sculpture, circa 1980. Lacquered wood and plaster,

Table lamp from the late 1940s by designer Pietro Chiesa, artistic director of Fontana Arte until 1948. In the table lamp, the particular wear of the brass and grinding of the glass,...

This desk lamp is made in the famous Memphis style. The Italian Memphis Group was a design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) in 1981 in Milan which designed Postmodern furniture, lights, fabrics, ceramics, glass, acrylic and metal objects from 1981 to 1987. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again“. The song was played constantly during the first meeting of the designers on the 11th December 1980. The group’s members included Andrea Branzi, Aldo Cibic, Alessandro Mendini,Arata Isozaki, Barbara Radice, Beppe Caturegli, Ettore Sottsass, George Sowden, Gerard Taylor, Giovanni Levanti, Hans Hollein, Javier Mariscal, Laura Agnoletto, Lawrence Laske, Luciano Paccagnella, Marco Susani, Marco Zanini, Marco Zanuso, Maria Sanshez, Martine Bedin, Marzio Rusconi, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Masanori Umeda, Matteo Thun, Michael Graves, Michele de Lucchi, Nathalie du Pasquier, Peter Shire, Shiro Kuramata and Thomas Bley...

Limited series table lamp designed by Aldo Cibic during the 1980s for the French lighting company Drimmer, as part of a series of lamps from the Memphis-Milano group. Materials: A...