Model 546 Table Lamp by Alessio Tasca

Table lamp by Venini. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1950. Table lamp with cylindrical frosted glass shade, and deep royal blue stoneware ba...

Model 282 Table Lamp by Paolo Caliari for Oluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1960s. Tulip polished brass base, paired with a fringe shade. The shade is a cream colo...

Alessio Tasca Glazed Studio Pottery Table Lamp, Italy, 1960s. This is a wonderful and unusual table lamp by sculptor Alessio Tasca. Very nicely glazed with great colors and a mode...

Table lamp or desk lamp model 546 with lampshade in lacquered aluminum, stem in chromed brass, base in lacquered cast-iron, and opaline glass diffuser. This lamp was designed by Gio Ponti and manufactured by Ugo Pollice Illuminazione during the 1940s. Gio Ponti was an icon of the modernist movement: the Italian designer, architect, artist and publisher contributed significantly to the worlds of architecture and design with his extensive work in Fine furniture and ceramics, education, office and residential buildings, and everything in between. Gio Ponti was born in 1891 in Milan. It was there that he spent his childhood, and in 1921 he began to study architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1923 to 1930 he served as the artistic director of the Richard-Ginori porcelain factory. In 1927, Ponti started his first architectural office, together with Emilio Lancia, and in 1928 he started the magazine Domus, which is still regarded as one of the most influential European magazines for architecture and design. He was also very influential during the period as a curator of the Milan Triennale. After his collaboration with Emilio Lancia had come to an end, upon completion of the Torre Rasini, he began to work as an architect together with the engineers Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini...