Taccia
Taccia is a desk lamp designed by the Italian industrial designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1958. The prototype was presented the following year at the Illinois Institute of Design , with the lighting manufacturer Flos the lamp was brought to market maturity and produced from 1962.
The 66 cm high lamp consists of three basic components: the base in which the lamp is housed, a glass bowl and an aluminum reflector. The aluminum base is modeled on a column and contains the socket for the light bulb, the bulb itself and ventilation holes for heat dissipation. The light emerges upwards from the base, where it is reflected by the conically shaped aluminum reflector through the glass into the room. The glass bowl is not attached to the base so that the angle of the light can be adjusted as desired by turning the bowl.
The combination of industrial aesthetics with the shape of a classic column is considered to anticipate the ironic formal language of postmodern design. Taccia has been added to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
literature
- Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell: Taccia. In: Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell (Ed.): 1000 Lights . Taschen, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8365-4676-8 , pp. 360–361.
- David Bramston: Visual Conversations (= Basics product design. Volume 3). AVA Publishing, Worthing 2010, ISBN 978-2-940411-09-2 , p. 91.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Taccia with Achille Castiglioni ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell: Taccia. In: 1000 Lights. P. 360.
- ^ "Taccia" Lamp in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
