VeArt Masha Table Lamp

VeArt Masha table lamp round chrome base opal glass lampshade 1990s design: Jeannot Cerutti Artemide Italy

VeArt Masha table lamp round chrome base & rods without lampshade 1990s design: Jeannot Cerutti Artemide Italy

VeArt Masha table lamp conical white opal glass lampshade 1990s design: Jeannot Cerutti Artemide Italy

VeArt Masha Table Lamp – 1994 Catalogue Picture

Many thanks to Ger for the pictures.

Materials: Round chromed metal (iron) base & rods. Black anthracite painted middle part. Conical white opal glass lampshade. Bakelite E27 socket.

Height: 63 cm / 24.80”

Width: 34 cm / 13.38”

Lampshade: 34 x 15 cm / 13.38 x 5.90”

Base: ∅ 22 cm / 8.66”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 150 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Anytypeof light bulb canbeused. Not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1990s.

Designer: Jeannot Cerutti in 1990.

Manufacturer: VeArt, division of Artemide, Via Bergamo 18, 20010 Pregnana Milanese, Italy

Other versions: This VeArt Masha table lamp was made with or without dimmer. It is named Masha Tavolo (table). Also a wall lamp was designed.

Jeannot Cerutti

Jeannot Cerutti is an interior designer, lighting designer, industrial designer and architect. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille (National School of Architecture of Marseille) in France.

Jeannot Cerutti designed for, among others: VeArt, Artemide, Giorgio Armani, Kenzo, McDonald’s, Sawaya & Moroni. He lives in Turin, Italy.

VeArt

VeArt, first written as Ve-Art was founded in 1965 by Sergio Biliotti and Ludovico Diaz de Santillana. Ludovico Diaz de Santillana was born in Rome in 1931. He graduated in architecture in Venice and he started teaching at the university. He married Anna Venini, the daughter of Paolo, the founder of the Venini glass company.

Ludovico Diaz de Santillana became the artistic director of Venini in 1985, after Paolo ‘s death. He died in 1989.

The VeArt company produced artistic glass and lighting. Mario Ticco was artistic director for a while. In the early 90s the brand was acquired by Artemide. The Artemide company used the brand’s name for a couple of years.

Designers that worked for VeArt are, among others: Tobia Scarpa, Renato Toso, Noti Massari, Toni Zuccheri, Paolo Zanotta, Ernesto Gismondi = Orni Halloween, Umberto Riva, Alfredo Giuseppe Righetto, Lino Tagliapietra, Roberto Freno, Luciano Bartolini, Adolf Loos, Luisa Calvi, Giorgio de Ferrari, Gigi Basso, Luigi Ghisetti, Umberto Riva, Sergio Asti, and Guido Rosati.

VeArt also sold lamps under the name VeLuce. They appear together in the same catalogues. The VeLuce lamps doon’t have names in the catalogues, only numbers. VeArt was the more fancy of the two. But the designs of VeLuce are certainly not inferior to those of VeArt.

Artemide

The Artemide Group is based in Pregnana Milanese, Italy. The company is probably best known for the Tizio desk lamp designed by Richard Sapper in 1972. The company is also famous for the Tolomeo desk lamp, designed by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina in 1986. Artemide produced many other beautiful lamps en furniture over all those the years.

Designers who have collaborated with the company include Mario Botta, Sir Norman Foster, Ettore Sottsass, Enzo Mari, Neil Poulton, Karim Rashid, Giò Ponti and many others.