Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965)
He was christened Cesare, but was called Joe. He enrolled in science, but went into art and architecture. He inherited his father's ribbon factory, but turned it into an electrical factory, where he was able to experiment with fibreglass, ABS, PVC and various polyethylenes to his heart's content. And from the world of industrial design It moved on to domestic and back to industrial, and so on and so on, with the idea of making good design available to everyone.
With this background, how could he not be one of the most influential industrial designers in history? And believe it or not, he did it all in about 20 years (Joe Colombo died at the age of 41 of a heart attack) and always thinking about "the life of the future": the Universalethe Elda chairthe Bobytheir lamps... (Alogena, Coupe, Spider...), it all looks like something out of Enterprise itself.
The SpiderThe lamp, in both its table and floor versions, is a lamp of apparent simplicity.
The bulb is specially designed for the lamp (if you find a dealer who sells them, get a few), and gives horizontal and adjustable light from a lacquered metal structure that covers and protects it fixed to a chrome foot.
He obtained the Compasso d'Oro Prize in 1967 and is part of the permanent collection of the Triennale in Milan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf, the Neue Sammlung Museum in Monaco, etc. etc. etc. It is produced by Olucefounded in 1945 in Milan by Giuseppe Ostuni, and the oldest Italian design company still in business.
