Commissioned from the designer by Liliana Grassi, Milan, circa 1955
Lumières: Je pense à vous, exh. cat., Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985, p. 137 for another variant of the model
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950-1980, vol. 1, Turin, 2003, p. 23 for another variant of the model
Roberto Sarfatti, Il fascino delle lampade di Gino Sarfatti: sul filo della memoria, Milan, 2011, p. 30 for another variant of the model
Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: Selected Works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 66, 218, 449 for another variant of the model
Alexander Koch, Neuzeitliche Leuchten der 50er Jahre, Stuttgart, 2012, p. 44 for another variant of the model
Italian • 1912 - 1985
Rising above the devastation of World War II, post-war Italian design reached new heights of productivity and ingenuity, particularly in the realm of lighting. Gino Sarfatti is among the most celebrated lighting designers from this fruitful period. Before founding his company Arteluce in 1939, Sarfatti studied aeronautical engineering. He brought the inventiveness of a self-taught outsider to the field of lighting design, while his mechanical background lent lightness and ingenuity of construction. Poetic underpinnings are also evident in lamps such as model no. 1034 (sometimes referred to as the "Vine" lamp), which features a nearly 8' twisting brass stem graced with nine delicate, articulating white shades like buds on a flower.
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