Links (external links open in a new window)
The Seta table lamp on the André Ricard website
Table lamp 4732 on the iF Design Awards website
Vintageinfo
André Ricard globe table lamp 4732
Another André Ricard table lamp
Many thanks to Lluís from Eclectique Vintage for the photos and the enthusiasm.
André Ricard Seta Table Lamp
Materials: Round white acrylic shell base. White acrylic mushroom lampshade. Metal rod, Bakelite E27 socket.
Height: 28 cm / 11.02”
Width: ∅ 38 cm / 14.96”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, but a white/opal one gives the best result.
Period: 1970s, 1980s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: André Ricard in 1974.
Manufacturer: Metalarte, Paseo de la Ribera 115, Canovelles, Barcelona, Spain.
Other versions: A few years earlier André Ricard designed an almost similar table lamp, it won an iF Design Award in 1972. You can find it over here.
Seta: Spanish word for mushroom.
The André Ricard Seta table lamp was produced for a long time, below on the left a 1970s and on the right a 1980s label.
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.
