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Rare Bitossi Pottery Lamp for Wilmar. Mid Century Modern Italian Fine Decor 1950
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MARVELOUS!
BITOSSI
TEAK & POTTERY
SCULPTURAL LAMP
FOR WILMAR LAMP CO.
GORGEOUS MODERNISM!
DIMENSIONS: Approximately 27" x 18"
This beautiful lamp makes clear why Italian lamp design dominated the postwar period. Rich pottery, clean designs and the blending of style with elegance and utility, made Italian designs such as this Bitossi piece for Wilmar so coveted - both when new and now, 70 years later!
The rich auburn color of this pottery and the flecked design are so appealing! Crowned with a crisp white shade, this lamp enhances almost every decor theme and is a decorator's delight!
Lamp is in very fine vintage condition! Light age appropriate wear. Works perfectly and displays beautifully!
A Wonderful lighting creation that will infuse timeless style into the interiors of your NY penthouse, Rancho Sante Fe home or West Palm Beach estate!
- Creator:Bitossi (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 18 in (45.72 cm)
- Power Source:Plug-in
- Voltage:110-150v
- Lampshade:Included
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1953
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Peoria, AZ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU9080237756112
Bitossi
Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vintage vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass.
The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.”
But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis postmodern design collective in Milan, Sottsass used the Bitossi kilns to create timeless works that manifest both primitive forms and modern geometries. In later decades, Bitossi would welcome new generations of designers, which have included such names as Ginevra Bocini and Karim Rashid. While always looking forward, Bitossi is firm in their belief that mastery of craft is the first step towards beautiful design. As you will see from the works offered on these pages, that is a winning philosophy.
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