Artemide Nesso lamp

£160.00
  • Materials: plastic, metal
  • Size: 515mm (Diam) x 350mm (H)
  • Reference: SB23396
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  • Categories: Lighting
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White Nesso lamp, designed by Giancarlo Mattioli and the Urban Architects Group 'Citta Nuova', for Artemide in 1965. Vintage original, inc.labels, probably from 1990s. A true mid-century design classic.

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/