Artemide

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Artemide is an Italian company specializing in the production of indoor and outdoor design lighting for both the residential and professional sectors. Artemide was founded in 1960 on the initiative of Ernesto Gismondi, an aeronautical engineer with a passion for design, and architect Sergio Mazza, who signed his first lamp, Alfa, for the company. Already in the first decade of activity, some of the products that soon became true icons were born. Among them undoubtedly is the Eclisse table lamp, designed in 1967 by Vico Magistretti, awarded the Compasso d'Oro and a symbol of the company's international success. In the 1980s, Artemide landed in the United States and simultaneously started a collaboration with Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina, launching on the market the very famous and innovative Tolomeo, winner of the Compasso d'Oro award in 1989 and the company's bestseller, which today furnishes thousands of residences and offices around the world. In 1995, the company received the prestigious Compasso d'Oro Career Design Award, followed in 1997 by the European Design Prize. In 2002, Herzog & De Meuron's Pipe lamp won the Compasso d'Oro. The Nur lamps, on the other hand, are just a few among many to win the Red Dot Design Award in the following years. Today the Artemide Group, based in Pregnana Milanese, operates globally through 24 subsidiaries and distributes its products in 83 countries. It also has a network of 60 single-brand showrooms in the world's major cities and 5 manufacturing plants in Italy, France, Hungary and the USA, as well as 2 glass factories and 2 research and development centers in Italy and France

Artemide's new lamp collections, innovation, efficiency and aesthetics

Despite its notoriety, Artemide does not limit itself to producing its historical lamps, but offers ever-new collections capable of attracting the attention of the public and industry professionals, with an emphasis on the technological approach. The Integralis® collection represents a true system that combines a high perceptive quality of light with the sanitization of environments, through light emissions that limit the development of pathogenic microorganisms. Designer Carolina Gismondi de Bevilacqua signs the Wish You Were Here table lamp, created from the ingenious Discovery lamp, one of the last projects signed by her father, Artemide founder Ernesto Gismondi. Carolina makes use of the same patented optical principle as Discovery and bends the surface of the transparent sheet, creating a striking luminous volume. Giulia Foscari's UNA/UNLESS studio enriches the Artemide catalog with the scenic Criosfera lamp. The lighting body is inserted into a cylinder made from layers of recycled blown glass, whose undulating surface is furrowed with incisions that refract light. The transparent blown glass outer cylinder evokes the ice coring tool, while the orange-red power cord adds a splash of color. Criosfera is declined in Criosfera Horizontal, Criosfera Vertical and Criosfera Floor versions. More restrained in design, but no less complex in concept and technology, are the lamps in the extensive Ixa collection, a project by Foster+Partners, inspired by the dynamic sculptures of Alexander Calder. The lamp is inserted into a hemisphere that is in turn attached to a rod by a magnet, and its weight is balanced by a spherical counterweight in a delicate equilibrium. The lamp can rotate freely in space, creating endless lighting possibilities, from the simplest versions, namely the Ixa table lamp and the Ixa Spot wall lamp, to more complex compositions, such as the Ixa XL hanging lamp and the Ixa adjustable floor lamp.

Artemide, Design Collection, the lamps that wrote the history of design

Browsing through the Artemide catalog is like reading the history of design. Immediately recognizable are the iconic lamps that the whole world knows and appreciates. Among them, the Pirce hanging lamp, design by Giuseppe Maurizio Scutellà, year 2012, with its spiral structure in painted aluminum, does not go unnoticed. Going back in time, we come to 2003 to meet the Castore lamp collection, designed by Michele De Lucchi and Huub Ubbens, which brings back to its former glory the classic spherical diffuser in opaque white blown glass. Most refined is the transition from diffuser to support, modulated by a stem in white thermoplastic resin, which eliminates any solution of continuity between the elements, through soft lines. Castore is available in floor, table and pendant versions. We come to the 1970s, to discover the surprising Boalum lamp, the brainchild of Livio Castiglioni and Gianfranco Frattini. The tube-shaped structure with a diameter of 6cm, made of translucent flexible PVC, is formed by modules that can be joined to form a sort of luminous snake, for a length of up to 2 meters. And we conclude with one of the most iconic lamps in the Artemide catalog, the Nesso table lamp, designed in the 1960s by Giancarlo Mattioli. Its mushroom profile with flattened hemisphere shade remains inimitable, and the version declined in orange, the cult color of those years, is now considered a collector's item.

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