Arco (lamp)
Arco is a floor lamp that was designed in 1962 by the Italian industrial designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for the lighting manufacturer Flos . It is considered an icon of modern industrial design .
history
The Castiglioni brothers, who had been designing lights together since 1945, developed the light to solve the problem of having to damage the ceiling in order to install ceiling lights. According to their motto that good design requires close observation, they found the solution in the implementation of street lighting , which they adapted for room lighting. Street lights are firmly fixed to the floor and, in contrast to the room free-standing lights that were common up to now, are able to illuminate several meters around them
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As an equivalent for the ground anchoring, they chose a heavy block of marble to which a steel arch with a lamp sitting on it is attached. To avoid the problem that the space between a person sitting at a table and the lamp is no longer passable, the arch was designed to be expansive. The problem of moving was solved with a hole in the marble block so that two people can move the lamp with the help of a broomstick.
As an outstanding example of modern product design , it was accepted into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art . To this day, the lamp has been produced and marketed by Flos almost unchanged, the only changes being adjustments to the applicable standards for electrical appliances .
description
The base of the lamp consists of a 65 kg block of white marble with rounded corners. There is a hole in the marble block, which is used to transport the lamp, but which is also used to fasten the stand.
The arched stand consists of three parts made of stainless steel that can be telescoped into one another. In this way, the lamp can be adjusted to three different heights, the maximum is located illuminant two meters above the foot. The wiring is in the pipes.
The upper part of the screen is a hood that is permanently mounted on the stand and is provided with holes to cool the lamp . There is a swiveling aluminum ring on it.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Arco Floor Lamp in the Museum of Modern Art
- ↑ a b Arco on the Achille Castiglionis website ( memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
