De-lux B4 - Floor lamp

Gio Ponti was always drawing. He designed ceramics, porcelain and majolica for Richard-Ginori: archaeological walks, classical conversations, skiers, acrobats, farmers, dancers, tired pilgrims, labyrinths. He drew images of heraldic derivation for Ferrari, morose men at the window on silk taffeta opening wide green shutters dripping with love.

He drew fairy hands gilded and decorated with flowers. He drew Mediterranean villas and simple prototypes of beach houses with an alcove for sleeping inside. He designed magazines and their covers, costumes for La Scala in Milan, enamelled copper objects, coffee and sewing machines, handles. He designed trumeaus with Piero Fornasetti, headboards, bedspreads, coverlets, organised walls, luminous furniture, furnished windows, light and super-light chairs, ships, building facades during the day and at night. He designed carpets and kaleidoscope floors. And he designed lamps. He did not draw many, some are archive sketches.

One of them is almost a taxonomy, an inventory of pieces, each indicated by a lowercase letter of the alphabet, an alphabet book also drawn in pencil. A series of bases, different shapes, continually varied, a tripod, a cone or a square grid resembling a low table, also drawn by him, in which the different colouring of the faces, the different aspects of the modular scheme, make it always appear different depending on the point of view from which one looks at it.

The colour tone is prevalent on the blues of the tiles in the Hotel Parco dei Principi, on the yellows and oranges of the studio house in Via Dezza. The lampshades are also different, cone and truncated cone, in polypropylene or aluminium or brass. And now, from a drawing, they have become objects that can be lit.

Floor lamp. Aluminium structure, matt white plastic diffuser

Weight 3,5 Kg

Voltage 220/240

Diameter 48 cm. Height 162 cm

Update: 07/02/24