Dimensions Height: 59.5cm x Diam ⌀32cm Base: ⌀12cm
Material aluminium, steel
Specification IP 20 LED 1xMAX 12W (E27)
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.
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect from Ticino, known for buildings in brick and stone banded in strong horizontal courses. He trained in Le Corbusier's office and with Louis Kahn early in his career.
The Shogun lamps he designed for Artemide in 1986 bring that language indoors. Two white perforated steel diffusers move independently, and between them the light comes out as a shifting pattern of bright and dark rather than a single wash.
The pure geometry, the balanced volumes and the contrasting colours are Botta's architecture at table scale.
Left, two perforated shades over a banded column — Botta's horizontal courses at table scale. Right, the same lamp lit: the perforation turns light into stripes.
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect from Ticino, known for buildings in brick and stone banded in strong horizontal courses.
The Shogun lamps he designed for Artemide in 1986 bring that language indoors. A perforated metal cylinder is painted with black and white stripes, and the pattern breaks up the light while doubling as the structure.
Botta trained with Le Corbusier's office and with Louis Kahn early in his career, and his built work includes the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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.
