Artemide Nesso lamp
- Materials: plastic, metal
- Size: 515mm (Diam) x 350mm (H)
- Reference: SB23396
- Categories: Lighting
Supplied with four low wattage bulbs.
Paper label: Artemide modern classic Made in Italy
Label to base: Milan - Artemide modern classic Modello - Nesso Design - Giancarlo Mattioli del Gr. Arch.Urb.Citta'Nuova Made in - Italy
Embossed stamp to base: S.P.A. Artemide Milano Modello Nesso Design Giancarlo Mattioli del Gr. Arch.Urb.Citta'Nuova
"Nesso is an icon of Italian design from the ’60s, a decade that heralded the conquest of modernity in which design redefined the domestic landscape though the first uses of plastics. Innovative and democratic, its expressive form inspired by nature interprets and challenges industrial manufacturing technology.
The Urban Architects Group “Città Nuova” was a union of young professionals who decided to engage in architecture – and urban design – moving consciously away from the figure of the architect seen as an individual creator in order to listen to local communities and to work together. Established (and operating) in Bologna in the early 1960s upon an initiative of Giancarlo Mattioli, the Group included Pierluigi Cervellati, Umberto Maccaferri, Franco Morelli, Gianpaolo Mazzucato, Mario Zaffagnini, and Mattioli himself. In 1965 the Group, with Giancarlo Mattioli, participated in, and won, the competition “Studio Artemide Domus di Milano,” launched by Artemide and Editrice Domus, with a project for a new lamp, Nesso, whose image epitomizes those years and enjoyed long-term fortune."
from: https://www.artemide.com/en/