Vintage Yellow Lamp by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce, Italy, 1952

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This Arredoluce yellow lamp is an original lamp designed by Angelo Lelli and manufactured by Arredoluce very likely in 1952. … Read more This Arredoluce yellow lamp is an original lamp designed by Angelo Lelli and manufactured by Arredoluce very likely in 1952. Green Alpi marble base (a marble of great aesthetic value, very rare and refined and elegant), structure in polished and enameled brass. The arm can be swiveled and fixed by a system inside the central joint, and controlled by the counterweight handle at the end. Enameled aluminum reflector. Published in: Arredoluce Catalogue Raisonné, 1943-1987. Dimensions: cm 35 (diameter) x 183. Reflector diameter cm 35. Good condition. Arredoluce was a lighting manufacturer founded by Angelo Lelli in postwar Italy, a hotbed of inventive industrial design. The company manufactured lighting by Ettore Sottsass, though the company’s best-known designs, variations on a floor lamp with a slender column, pivoting arms that allowed for maximum flexibility of use, and enameled metal conical shades, is attributed to Lelli. Angelo Lelli (1911-1979) - also spelled ''Lelii'' as you read in some of his signatures - was an Italian designer, considered today as a key personality of the modernist era. Of lighting design, like his more successful contemporaries such as Gino Sarfatti of Arteluce and Giuseppe Ostuni of Oluce. Little information about Lelli's biography has survived, but according to some sources he lived from 1911-1979. He was an active and decisive figure in the Italian postwar design boom, giving a significant contribution to the Italian design renaissance. Lelli collaborated with many other important designers, including Gio Ponti, Nanda Vigo, Mario Tedeschi, Franco Albini, Achille and Pier Castiglioni, and Ettore Sottsass, creating many table and floor lamps, sconces and chandeliers. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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Up to 250V (Europe/UK Standard).The wiring of this item may be original and might need replacement, if not specified otherwise. See less