Tizio
Tizio is a desk lamp that was designed by Richard Sapper in 1972 for the Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide . It was included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art .
Sapper stated that he developed the lamp because there was no task lamp that he thought was sufficiently practical. He wanted a lamp with a small lamp head on a movable arm that didn't have to be attached to the desk and whose light cone could be easily repositioned. The easy-to-use, free positioning of the lamp was implemented with two lamp arms, at the ends of which counterweights are attached so that the lamp can be moved in all directions and remains in a set position. To get around the problem of disturbing cabling that light was a low voltage - halogen lamp equipped, making their arms as electric line could be used. In the last few years an LED version with 8 watts has been launched.
When it was launched in 1972, the luminaire was an innovation because of the previously unknown mobility of the arms and the type of power supply; in the 1980s it became an icon of high-tech design because of its simple design.
literature
- Hans Höger : The Tizio lamp by Richard Sapper . Verlag Form, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-931317-13-7 .
- MoMA highlights. 325 works from the Museum of Modern Art New York . Museum of Modern Art, New York 1999. ISBN 9780870700989
proof
- ^ Tizio in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Tizio in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art
- ↑ MoMA Highlights , p. 292.