This piece is produced to order by the maker. Production usually takes about 6–8 weeks, after which we despatch it from London.
Because it is built for you, cancellation is limited once production has started on a configuration you specified. Please check the timing before you order — and ask us if the date matters.
Sergio Mazza was an Italian architect and designer who worked with Artemide in its earliest years.
Alfa, from 1959, was the first lamp to enter the Artemide catalogue — in the same year the company was founded. It is still in production today.
It takes the traditional abat-jour and rebuilds it in worked crystal, the glass cut so that it reads as the fine pleating of a fabric lampshade. A marble base and a brass stem carry it. Everything Artemide became afterwards started from this object.
Marble base, brass stem, and a crystal shade cut so that it reads as pleated fabric. The first lamp Artemide ever sold.
Sergio Mazza was an Italian architect and designer who worked with Artemide in its earliest years.
The Alfa table lamp was the company's first commercial success, arriving before Artemide had properly launched as a lighting brand.
Its shape is a compact metal base with a spherical glass diffuser held in a ring — the kind of clear, repeatable geometry that set the direction for much of what Artemide made afterwards.
Founded in Milan in 1960, Artemide shapes light around people — Tolomeo, Tizio and Eclisse among its classics.
Ernesto Gismondi founded Artemide in Milan in 1960. The catalogue reads as a history of post-war Italian lighting: Vico Magistretti's Eclisse, Richard Sapper's Tizio, and the Tolomeo drawn by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina.
The company works to a philosophy it calls The Human Light — light made for people rather than for its own effect. Design and production are run from Pregnana Milanese, just outside Milan.
