Virtually born to the 800 and we could say that his birth date is October 21, 1879 when the first Edison light bulb and in the homes of middle-class began to spread a new alter ego of the candle. Via the hot flame but unfortunately little room for long-lasting and a lamp with its rounded shape is curled on the table, spreading a soft light that invites relaxation. The media success dell’abat-jour, however, comes with the song of the same name by Vittorio De Sica, who during the ’20s spreads his light blue “and makes it become the cult object of an era. So much so that the same notes will be the background to a famous striptease signed by Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and a lamp-shade will dell’abat even a little mischievous.
The history of its evolution a long way, especially since 1924, when two students of the Bauhaus metal workshop in 1924 are able to do with the lamp cap a fine piece of design. Today, the lamp Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Karl J. Jucker continues to be faithful to the original manufactured and reproduced. Italian instead is the creation Bilia, designed by Gio Ponti in much the same period and built by FontanaArte. From that moment on, the lamp becomes the object more present in homes and particularly in bedrooms and designers and businesses can revolutionize made in Italy but never change it completely.
Here we mark the lampshade and the most famous ones are practically not changed with the passage of time and then you can choose and adapt your home décor. First, the Bat by Game Aulenti, created in 1965 for Martinelli Luce is adjustable in height and its characteristic is the shade separated into four.
In 1977, Vico Magistretti created Atoll, a lamp made of aluminum produced in three sizes Oluce, which won the Golden Compass, the oldest but also the most influential global design prize.
Charming and unique is the lamp by Paolo Rizzatto Costanza, able to recreate the atmosphere of more traditional although the forefront of sophisticated technology. The shade of interchangeable polycarbonate diffuses a warm and pleasant and the lamp is now available in many versions.
And finally the latest proposals. The first is the Bourgie lamp by Ferruccio Laviani, designed in 2004 was a real surprise: the first neo-baroque-looking table lamp, made entirely of plastic from Kartell. The second, in 2010, is called Carmen and is the latest of the lampshade is created by by Héctor Serrano, the speaker with white metal finish. The lamp is produced by FontanaArte.
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