Table lamp designed by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce, Italy 1968.

Metal and enameled aluminium table lamp in glossy white lacquer. Central movable arm with two semi circular separately movable reflectors. Two E14 light sockets. Beautiful and fantastic design... SCULPTURE & LAMP!!!

Literature: Gramigna, G. Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950-2000. p151, illustrated.

Aulenti's fondness for crisp geometric forms serving a variety of functions is evident in this table lamp, designed in 1967. A characteristic Aulenti exercise in pure geometry. Cast in metal, this is at once a substantial object and a sophisticated sculptural concept, in which segmented three-quarter hemispheres serve as shades above the quarter segments that constitute the base.

Gae Aulenti (1927-2012) was an Italien architect, furniture and lighting designer graduating from the Milan School of Architecture in 1954. Aulenti was one of only a few women architects and designers who gained notoriety in their own right during the post-war period in Italy, with avant-garde design movement blossoming into an entirely new type of design full of imaginary utopias. Aulenti's conceptual development can be wonderfully followed in the design magazine CASABELLA, to which she contributed regularly. Aulenti designed products and furniture for companies such as ARTEMIDE, POLTRONOVA, CANDLE, KNOLL, LOUIS VUITTON and MARTIUNELLI LUCE.