Artimede Sconce

Tiara by artemide milano italy, heavy glass, design by gianfranco frattini 1980-1989s, Blue glass wall lamp, glass with high thickness, blue glass diffuser, glass with high thickness. Lampholder attack r7s, italian sconce. Halogen lamp. But you can replace with modern bulbs, those with low energy consumption. Gianfranco frattini (may 15, 1926 – april 6, 2004) was an italian architect and designer. He is a member of the generation that created the italian design movement in the late 1950s through the 1960s. Frattini opened his own professional practice in milan, after having worked in the office of his teacher and mentor giò ponti. Frattini became an industrial designer by default when he lacked appropriate lighting and furniture for his interiors. His collaboration with cesare cassina for his namesake company started in 1954, followed by collaborations with many other manufacturers, such as bernini, arteluce, acerbis, fantoni, artemide (for whom among others pieces with livio castiglioni he designed the historic boalum lamp), luci, knoll, lema and many others. In 1956 he co-founded associazione per il disegno industriale and throughout his career he practiced both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors. He was a board member of the triennale. Great connoisseur of wood craftsmanship, he forged a long and fruitful professional partnership with the master craftsman from bovisio masciago (milan), pierluigi ghianda. Glassware designed by gianfranco frattini for progetti is in the permanent collection of the museum of modern art and the boalum lamp (with livio castiglioni) produced by artemide is in the collection of the smithsonian, cooper-hewitt national design museum. Artemide is a design-oriented italian manufacturer founded by ernesto gismondi and sergio mazza in 1960. Based in pregnana milanese, a suburb of milan, the company specialises in the manufacture of lighting designed by designers and architects.