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Lot 480
MARIO TEDESCHI (1920-2005)
A SUSPENSION LIGHT, CIRCA 1952
Closed18 December 2015
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Specialist note
cf. L. Ponti, Mobile e Interni di Architetti Italiani, Milan, 1952, p. 89 and 119 for similar examples illustrated;
R. Aloi, Esempi Illuminazione d'Oggi, Milan, 1956, p. 193 for another similar example illustrated.
An experimental suspension lamp by the Milanese architect Mario Tedeschi, it was quickly adopted by Angelo Lelli's company, Arredoluce.
Tedeschi made numerous sketches of lighting fixtures and lamps dedicated to a variety of uses for his interior architecture. These drawings and gouaches were
published by Lisa Ponti early in 1952, in a book on the then current design scene of Milan. The suspension lamp of 1952 has its origins in three of those published sketches.
The architect created both a radical new design with six light sources alternating between incandescent and fluorescent as well as something truly compelling. Arredoluce enthusiastically ran an image of the light as an advert in various issues of Domus. That photograph was later published in the influential design anthology of Roberto Aloi in 1956. Alluding to a constellation in the night sky, it is clearly consistent with its mobile tectonics of weights and balances, resulting in a seductive equilibrium.
We would like to thank Brian Kish for his assistance with the cataloguing of and note for this lot.
R. Aloi, Esempi Illuminazione d'Oggi, Milan, 1956, p. 193 for another similar example illustrated.
An experimental suspension lamp by the Milanese architect Mario Tedeschi, it was quickly adopted by Angelo Lelli's company, Arredoluce.
Tedeschi made numerous sketches of lighting fixtures and lamps dedicated to a variety of uses for his interior architecture. These drawings and gouaches were
published by Lisa Ponti early in 1952, in a book on the then current design scene of Milan. The suspension lamp of 1952 has its origins in three of those published sketches.
The architect created both a radical new design with six light sources alternating between incandescent and fluorescent as well as something truly compelling. Arredoluce enthusiastically ran an image of the light as an advert in various issues of Domus. That photograph was later published in the influential design anthology of Roberto Aloi in 1956. Alluding to a constellation in the night sky, it is clearly consistent with its mobile tectonics of weights and balances, resulting in a seductive equilibrium.
We would like to thank Brian Kish for his assistance with the cataloguing of and note for this lot.