Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby for Flos Black Tab Table Lamp

About the Item

Originally designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby in 2011 for Flos, the Tab table lamp is a sophisticated contemporary lighting design. Constructed from die cast aluminium with a black painted finish, the lamp has a flat circular base and triangular shade. Perfect for desks or bedside tables, the Tab lamp provides directional light, with the lamp head adjusting to 90 degrees in both directions. Sleek and modern this Tab table lamp would make the perfect addition to any contemporary bedroom, living space or home office.

Creator:

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby (Designer),Flos (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 10.75 in (27.3 cm)Diameter: 12.88 in (32.7 cm)

Power Source:

Plug-in

Voltage:

24v

Lampshade:

Included

Materials and Techniques:

Metal

Place of Origin:

China

Period:

2010-

Date of Manufacture:

2010s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. One of the lamps has tarnished lacquer on the top lever.

Seller Location:

London, GB

Reference Number:

Seller: L000171stDibs: LU4510237385272

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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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