Oluce '281 Acrylic' Lamp - Design by Gianni and Joe Colombo
Features
Design by Gianni and Joe Colombo
Designer: Joe Colombo
Production: OLuce
Model: 281 Acrilica
Production country: Italy
Description
Table lamp in white enameled metal and transparent methacrylate, winner of the gold medal at the 13th Milan Triennale. Its curvature and thickness allow the light from the bulb contained in the steel base to rise up the transparent body and illuminate the top.
Product Condition:
The lamp is in good condition, with minor signs of wear. We try to present the actual condition of the lamps as accurately as possible with the photos. If any details are not clear from the photos, the description will apply.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 23,5
Width: 24
Depth: 23
Additional Information
Designer: Joe Colombo
Joe Colombo was born in Milan in 1930. In the early 1950s he joined the nuclear painting group with Enrico Baj. He studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the Milan Polytechnic. In 1961, having abandoned the profession of sculptor and painter, he opened a design studio in Milan. In 1964, at the XIII Triennale di Milano he obtained the Gold Medal. He participates in the XIV Triennale di Milano, where in a space entirely dedicated to him, he exhibits new interior design proposals, including the famous programmable system for living. In 1963 he won the Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale with the acrylic table lamp. In 1967 he won the Compasso d'Oro Award for the Spider lamp. In 1968 he obtained the Design International Award in Chicago. In 1970 he won the Compasso d'Oro Award for an air conditioner produced by CANDY. In 1971 the Boby won the first prize at the SMAU in Milan.Production: OLuce
Founded in 1945 by Giuseppe Ostuni, master artisan, Oluce is, in the field of lighting, the oldest Italian design company still active. Before the world conflict, there was only Arteluce by Gino Sarfatti, which disappeared at the end of the '90s; in 1948 Azucena and Lamperti were born, in 1950 Arredoluce and Stilnovo. However, it was especially Arteluce, Azucena, and Oluce that focused, for many years, the Italian landscape, establishing themselves as meeting points for those designers who, strongly involved first by reconstruction and then by the rise of mass production, animated the Milanese debate: Vittoriano Viganò and the BBPR, Gigi Caccia Dominioni and Ignazio Gardella, Marco Zanuso, and finally Joe Colombo. Already in 1951 Oluce participated, successfully, in the IX Triennale. A great success was affirmed by Tito Agnoli with the mentions at the second edition of the Compasso d'Oro, in 1955, for two lamps (the floor model 363 and a special bookshelf model). In 1956, two more mentions followed in quick succession: for a remarkable slatted polyvinyl table lamp and for a suspension fixture (mod. 4461) with a double diffuser in perspex. It is crucial to remember, finally, in 1954, the 255/387 fixture (called “Agnoli”), a slender rod supporting a spotlight, marking the end of lampshades and the adoption of very simplified floor lamps even in domestic lighting. Meanwhile, in 1963, in production from 1965, Marco Zanuso designed for Oluce a forgotten masterpiece, the table lamp model 275 with a large white perspex diffuser adjustable by rotation on a lacquered metal base. In 1964/66, again from a material, the pressed glass called “Lente Fresnel,” the family of watertight outdoor lamps "Fresnel" with a painted metal base and diffuser held by steel clips was born with Joe Colombo. In 1967 Colombo was already ahead and, with the model "Coupé," preserved at MoMa in New York, proposed a large curved stem supporting a very elegant semicylindrical shade. The Coupé won, in 1968, the "International Design Award" from the American Institute of Interior Designers in Chicago. Finally, in 1970, entering production in 1972, a year after the premature death of Joe Colombo, the "Halogen lamp" was born, necessarily called "Colombo" from then on. In 2001 white Murano glass stones and transparent perspex rods populated the Oluce stand at Euroluce. Designed by Laudani&Romanelli and Ferdi Giardini, they propose a way of understanding design that goes beyond function to become poetry. Finally, Oki Sato, that is Nendo, the most refined among the new Japanese designers, entered the Oluce team with "Sorane" first and then with "Switch." But this is no longer the history of Oluce, rather Oluce's contribution to contemporary design.Other customers have searched:
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Product availability
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