Metalarte Floor Lamp 3792 – 1973 Catalogue Picture
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André Ricard on the iF Design Awards website
Vintageinfo
Coffee bean table lamp – table lamp with the same chrome lamp base
Another André Ricard table lamp
Globe table lamp by André Ricard
Many thanks to Lluís from Eclectique Vintage for the photos.
Many thanks to Max from AfterMidnight for the catalogue pictures.
Metalarte Table Lamp 4793
Materials: Chrome tubes base and lampshade holder. Black plastic. Adjustable acrylic globe lampshade. Ribbed aluminium reflector. Porcelain E27 socket.
Height: 47 cm / 18.5”
Width: ∅ 30 cm / 11.81”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, but a silver tipped bulb is preferred, as used in this setup. According to the catalogue a Philips Argenta Superlux.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: André Ricard in 1973.
Manufacturer: Metalarte, Paseo de la Ribera 115, Canovelles, Barcelona, Spain.
Other versions: This Metalarte table lamp exists also as a wall lamp and a floor lamp.
André Ricard designed a very similar lamp, or an earlier version, in 1969, today named the coffee bean, due to the shape of the lampshade. You can find it over here.
André Ricard
André Ricard Sala was born June 18, 1929 in Barcelona, Spain. Ricard is an industrial designer. He designed mostly for Spanish companies, but also for firms such as Gaggia (coffee machines), Nestlé, Moulinex, Paco Rabanne, Pierre Fabre, Milus, Pierre Junod, Baume & Mercier and others.
He designed many lamps for Metalarte, the Tatu desktop spotlight from 1972 is his most famous. You can find it over here on Vintageinfo.
André Ricard received many awards, to name a few: the Spanish National Design Prize in 1987, the Catalan Saint George Cross and the IOC Olympic Order in 1993, in France the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 1998 and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2011.
Metalarte
The Metalarte company was founded in 1932 in Cannoveles, some 30 km/19 mi from Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. In the 1960s and 1970s it renewed its catalogue and started working with external designers and companies. For instance, they sold lamps produced by Louis Poulsen from Denmark and Arteluce and Stilnovo from Italy. Today the company is part of the Luxonia group. Together with the Troll and Sagelux brands.
Designers that worked for Metalarte are, among others: André Ricard, Enric Franch, Josep Lluscà, Estudi Blanc, Josep Aregall, Oscar and Sergi Devesa, Antoni Arola, Lievore Altherr Molina, Ricard Ferrer, George W. Hansen, Héctor Serrano, Jordi Llopis, Ana Mir, Emili Padrós, Otto Canalda and Ramón Úbeda.
Acrylic: often named by its commercial name: Perspex, Plexiglas, Crylux, Acrylite, Lucite, is a thermoplastic.
Metalarte Table Lamp 4793 – 1973 Catalogue Picture
Philips Argenta Superlux
Silver tipped E27 light bulb publicity from the 1960s in Spain. The lamp preferred in the 1973 catalogue. Today silver tipped LED light bulbs are for sale, fortunately.
