Lotto 297 | A table lamp Artemide, 'Area' lamp by Mario Bellini, Italy 1974Table...

Florence Number Nine - Via del Poggio Imperiale 9, 50125 Firenze

A table lamp Artemide, 'Area' lamp by Mario Bellini, Italy 1974Table...

A table lamp

Artemide, 'Area' lamp by Mario Bellini, Italy 1974

Table lamp with Rosenthal porcelain base and Cocoon diffuser. E27  light bulb base with mirrored topped surface, height 10cm. Given mention by the Compasso d'Oro in 1979.

References: Designer's description: "The intangible nature of light led me, in my next lamp to move away from an attachment to things and objects and to reduce the lamp to a synthesis of 'effect' and 'gesture'. The gesture of the twist of a translucent sheet that is just enough to conduct and disseminate the right amount of light, and the effect, accentuated by the impossible coincidence of the square sheet and the five swelling areas that distort it, to remind one of the unpredictable nature of the sky and clouds."

Mario Bellini 

Repertorio 1950/1980 by Giuliana Gramigna, Mondadori p. 408.