Achille Castiglioni: The Taccia Lamp
Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni have been two of the most important Italian designers during the mid century period.
The main goal of their design was -first of all- to fulfill the end user's needs. Their peculiar approach to design always started from daily use objects that they completely redesigned to fulfill a different necessity. The most famous examples of this original approach are probably the Toio lamp -inspired by a car reflector- and the Arco lamp, inspired by a street lamp.
Another internationally known lamp by the Castiglioni brothers is the Taccia Lamp. The lamp's light source is concealed in the base to prevent direct blinding light.
The light is, in fact, reflected from a white convex metal disc supported by a clear glass paraboloid that rotates on a circular support so that it can be aimed in the desired direction with no need to fix it mechanically.
The cylindrical chromed base -where the bulb and its socket are located- is holed at the top as at the bottom, and it is painted with a special heat resistant paint.
The convex metal disk has a double use.It avoids the light to shine directly out of the metal base but also avoids any contact with the hot base. Basically, the base has the same function of a radiator for a car -to cool down the engine- thanks to the holes at its top and bottom.
This lamp was fine tuned in 1958 and presented by the Castiglioni brothers the year after -in March- at the Illinois Institute of Design and the Chicago Institute of Technology. Interested in mass producing it, Flos, was involved in the study for the definitive prototype and began selling it in 1962 and since then it is a best seller and one of the most desired lamps ever.
The main goal of their design was -first of all- to fulfill the end user's needs. Their peculiar approach to design always started from daily use objects that they completely redesigned to fulfill a different necessity. The most famous examples of this original approach are probably the Toio lamp -inspired by a car reflector- and the Arco lamp, inspired by a street lamp.
Another internationally known lamp by the Castiglioni brothers is the Taccia Lamp. The lamp's light source is concealed in the base to prevent direct blinding light.
The light is, in fact, reflected from a white convex metal disc supported by a clear glass paraboloid that rotates on a circular support so that it can be aimed in the desired direction with no need to fix it mechanically.
The cylindrical chromed base -where the bulb and its socket are located- is holed at the top as at the bottom, and it is painted with a special heat resistant paint.
The convex metal disk has a double use.It avoids the light to shine directly out of the metal base but also avoids any contact with the hot base. Basically, the base has the same function of a radiator for a car -to cool down the engine- thanks to the holes at its top and bottom.
This lamp was fine tuned in 1958 and presented by the Castiglioni brothers the year after -in March- at the Illinois Institute of Design and the Chicago Institute of Technology. Interested in mass producing it, Flos, was involved in the study for the definitive prototype and began selling it in 1962 and since then it is a best seller and one of the most desired lamps ever.
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