Vintage "Giada" Large Desk Lamp by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce 'Flos'

Adjustable Igloo desk lamp designed by Tommaso Cimini for Lumina Italia, 1980s. "Tommaso Cimini was the founder of the Italian lighting company Lumina ...

Extremely rare 'Sistema Grall' floor lamp manufactured by Arteluce, designed by Ferrari, Luciano Pagani, and Angelo Perversi in charcoal grey metal (base textured, pole and headstand in glossy coated finish) and glass. Awarded with the Compasso d'Oro in 1991. Published in Gramigna, Design Italiano 1950-2000, (1st edition published in 2003) Creator: Arteluce - FLOS (Manufacturer) Dimensions: Height: 76.38 in (194 cm)Width: 14.57 in (37 cm)Depth: 10.24 in (26 cm) Style: Modern (Of the Period) Materials and Techniques: Molded Glass, Metal and aluminium-injected parts Place of Origin: Italy Period: 1980-1989 Date of Manufacture: ca.1984 Condition: Excellent, near mint condition (fully dismantled with every single part revised, re-painted re-coated, checked, and tested Shipping: Worldwide is always welcome! PROFESSIONALLY packed with insurance, handling, and materials already included in your freight cost. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLEASE NOTE: To maintain the integrity of these valuable pieces this lot will be shipped fully insured, professionally boxed, and offered with a trackable shipping freight worldwide which is already included in the freight cost presented for your location. 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back Have a look for more original art pieces in my shop. Photographs in this listing are image quotations from the work that is offered for sale. © Copyright holder. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REF. 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 the 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...

Table lamp model Tikal 1555 designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce. Elegant table lamp model Tikal 1555, the name and shape recall the Mayan culture. The lamp has a swivel ...

Beautiful post modern table lamp. This model is named "Tikal" and was designed by Pier Giuseppe Ramella for Arteluce in the 80's. It is in perfect condition.