Arteluce, the Sarfatti house of Italian lighting

Arteluce, founded in Milan in 1939 by Gino Sarfatti, is one of the three great Italian houses of modern lighting, alongside Arredoluce and Stilnovo. For thirty-five years, Sarfatti himself designed almost the entire catalogue, signing more than six hundred models of lamps, floor lamps and pendants where the mathematical rigour of lighting fixtures meets the warmth of chrome, brass and opal glass. The 1063 model (1954), a floor lamp with a vertical neon tube, and the 2097 model (1958), an eighteen-bulb brass pendant, remain its most iconic pieces.

Arteluce lamps, designed by Gino Sarfatti then by Vittoriano Viganò, remain the absolute references of Italian post-war lighting. A signature to find for those wanting collector lighting from the great Milanese tradition.