Veneta Lumi Desk Lamp

Materials: Blue painted round & flat metal (iron) base. Yellow rod. Adjustable red rod. Some black & green plastic parts. Green conical aluminium lampshade, painted white inside. Bakelite E27 socket.

Lampshade: ∅ 9 cm / 3.54”

Height: 57 cm / 22.44” – adjustable

Base: ∅ 15 cm / 5.90”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb with an E27 screw base can be used. Not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1990s.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Veneta Lumi, Italy.

Other versions: This Veneta Lumi desk lamp exists in several colours and some varieties. Made with other plastic parts. Also another, more angular lampshade exists. The base was used for several other lamps of the series Z1-90. A floor lamp also exists.

This Veneta Lumi desk lamp is the most well known lamp of the company. It is the successor of a similar model from the Z1-90 series from the late 1980s. Only the plastic parts are different. It was sold by many companies, among others Massive. Many other lamps by Veneta Lumi were sold by other companies.

Veneta Lumi 

The name Veneta Lumi says it all: lights made in the Veneto region in the north of Italy. The capital and the largest city is Venice.

Not much is found about the Veneta Lumi company. It was active from the late seventies until the nineties. They produced many lamps in the at the eighties very popular Memphis style, made famous by Ettore Sottsass. In the beginning the name was Nuova Veneta Lumi. Nuova = new. It became Veneta Lumi in the late eighties. They also used the name Laguna Light in the nineties, also referring to Venice. 

Veneta Lumi also sold lighting produced by other companies such as Massive from Belgium and Fisher Leuchten from Germany.