Easylight lamp by Philippe Starck for Electrorama, 1980s.

Rare 'easylight' lamp by Electrorama, circa 1980. Neon floor lamp. Designed around 1977, the edition was for Starck Product or Electrorama around 1980. Stamped 'Starck Product'. Makrolon, polyurethane and fluorescent tube H: 142 cm; D: 6.7 cm. The lamp features an integrated mercury toggle switch (the lamp turns on when its position is slightly altered). Most likely purchased in the Netherlands at De Bijenkorf, around 1980. Bibliography: J.-F. Grunfeld, M.-L. Jousset, Lumières Je Pense à Vous, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 3 June - 5 August 1985, p. 158, n. 282 C. Colin, Starck, Ed Pierre Mardaga, Liège, 1988, p. 274, 278, 296.