Designed by Vico Magistretti
For many years now, Atollo has no longer been a lamp, or rather, it has no longer been just a lamp. It has become a myth, an icon: one of the best know symbols of Italian design wordwide, one of the very few products which people recognise and call with its own name. Designed by Vico Magistretti in 1977, it was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1979 and became, since then, part of the permanent collections of the world’s major museum of design, as well as part of the furniture of many homes of those who love and are able to select the things surrounding them. Atollo’s secret probably lies in the geometrical construction of its shapes: the cone on the cylinder and the semisphere above all. A luminous sculpture from which nothing can be removed to which nothing can be added. And which nothing can copy.
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Its sinuous curves resulting from the shaping of a sheet of frosted methacrylate softly diffuse the light. It brings together ?simplicity and concept? which for Magistretti are at the heart of durable design.
Realised in 1979, Kuta expresses Magistretti?s constant quest to combine simplicity and geometric rigour with an evocative lighting effect of lights and shadows.
In 1946, Vico Magistretti conceived Claritas, his first lighting design, which conceptually aimed for clarity and brightness. In a context of reconstruction and reconversion of the war industry, for the first time Magistretti used bent metal tubes and a curved aluminium sheet as a reflector, which could be oriented and regulated, ensuring the desired lighting […]
Sophisticated and technical project that introduces the most cutting-edge achievements in the optics and dimming control into a domestic environment. Designed for a sharp lighting through a fluid interaction. A simple hand gesture can orient the light, vary the intensity and adjust the beam angle. The spotlight?s features converge where the hand naturally rests to […]
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Onfale, designed by Luciano Vistosi in 1978, is a masterpiece of design that catches the attention of anyone who sees it. Its sinuous, rounded shape recalls the perfect shape of a mushroom. It comes with a blown glass frame and an opal glass diffuser, providing a uniform and lovely illumination. The transparent hot-rolled glass edge […]
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Bringing the soft illumination of its pendant predecessor, the Lantern Floor Lamp extends this iconic family. Inspired by the traditional Japanese rice paper lantern, the frosted glass form replicates that weightless glow. Firmly keeping this sculptural shape centre stage, a simple black steel base raises up its warm glow.
With direct reference to the anecdote of the apple falling on Isaac Newton?s head, suggesting the existence of gravity, Newton?s metal diffuser rotates and enlightens the natural element in a mix of direct and diffused light.