Dimensions Height: 22.3cm x Diam ⌀32cm Base: ⌀12.5cm
Material polycarbonate
Specification IP20 LED 4xMAX 6W (E14) 220V-240V
Shipping & Returns
Made to order — about 6–8 weeks
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.
Giancarlo Mattioli designed Nesso with the Bologna architects' group Gruppo Architetti Urbanisti Città Nuova, and Artemide put it into production in 1967.
The lamp is a single injection-moulded shell — a wide mushroom cap on four legs — made in one operation. It belongs to the decade in which the first uses of plastics redrew the domestic landscape, and it was an argument as much as an object: industrial moulding could produce something worth keeping, at a price that put it in ordinary homes.
Nessino reinterprets the same lines in a smaller, more versatile body, keeping the expressive shape of the original. Nesso is in the collection of MoMA.
Left, the orange shell in a room it was made for — in 1967 plastic in the house was still an argument. Right, from an Artemide catalogue photograph: the two sizes side by side.
Giancarlo Mattioli designed Nesso with the Bologna architects' group Gruppo Architetti Urbanisti Città Nuova, and Artemide put it into production in 1967.
The lamp is a single injection-moulded ABS shell — a wide mushroom cap on four legs — made in one operation. It was an argument as much as an object: industrial plastic could produce something worth keeping, at a price that put it in ordinary homes.
Nesso is in the permanent collection of MoMA in New York. Nessino is the smaller version of the same form, still made today.
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.
