Acrylic Globe Floor Lamp

Materials: Chromed metal (iron) round base. Round metal lid on the bottom. Some metal and brass parts inside the base. Half round white acrylic lampshade. Some metal parts. Pressed aluminium reflector. 3 Bakelite sockets.

Height: 37 cm / 14.56”

Width: ∅ 40 cm / 15.74”

Base: ∅ 29,8 cm / 11.73”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 75 watt. 2 bulbs E14, 1 x 40 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
For this setup a silver cupped light bulb was used. Inside 2 frosted normal E14 bulbs.

Period: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Leola-Leuchte GmbH, Leyherstraße 14, Fuerth, Germany.

Other versions: This acrylic globe floor lamp exists in 2 versions. This floor lamp model and an arc floor lamp with a cubic marble base. The light bulbs inside can be lit separate. Also pendant lamps exists, with or without rise & fall mechanism. There is also a floor lamp with the same mechanism as the table lamp on the table in the 1973 catalogue photo on this page.

Harvey Guzzini – Laurel Lamp MFG

This floor lamp is a rare seen lamp, but the arc floor lamp is common. The arc floor lamp has the same globe and parts and the 3 lamp sockets. Always described as a “Harvey Guzzini floor lamp for Laurel“, an American company. But the only label I have seen in 20 years is 1 lamp with a label from the Laurel Lamp MFG Co Inc. company. Never a label of Harvey Guzzini appears. Very strange for a lamp by this company. Also my arc floor lamp and this acrylic globe floor lamp have no label. It is unlikely that Laurel produced these lamps, because my lamps were acquired in Germany and Belgium. Many of these lamps appear in Europe, and also in a France, as you can see.

Certainly in the Harvey Guzzini style, but it is not a Guzzini lamp.

De Martini, Falconi & Fois

This series of lamps shows the most resemblance to the lamps that De Martini, Falconi & Fois designed for Reggiani, but there may be minor differences.

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The German LEOLA did sell this lamp, as you can see from the 1973 catalogue photo, but the manufacturer is likely a different company. That catalogue lists many lamps produced by other companies.

LEOLA

The German company LEOLA was originally based in the Leyherstraße 14 in Fürth. The exact year of its founding is unknown for the moment, but this catalogue photo from 1973 confirms that the company was active at least by then.

In 2009, LEOLA relocated to Schweppermannstraße 77 in 90409 Nuremberg, and in 2012 it moved again to Ostendstraße 241. The company’s last managing director was Michael Pietsch.

While LEOLA distributed a wide range of lamps from other manufacturers, it also produced its own designs. Notably, designers such as Cari Zalloni and Gaetano Sciolari created pieces for the company.

LEOLA was officially liquidated in 2017, though its website remained online until 2020. An archived version of the site can still be accessed through the link below.

Laurel

The American Laurel Lamp Company was founded in 1946 in Newark, New Jersey, by Max, Murray, and Harold Weiss, and remained active until 1981. The firm designed and manufactured lighting and home furnishings at its Newark facility near Rome & Magazine Streets; early-1980s trade listings also cite 111 Rome Street as the company’s address.

Laurel combined substantial in-house design—led by Harold Weiss and including work by Richard “Dick” Barr – with European collaborations, notably with the House of Salviati (Murano, 1971) and Pierre Cardin (1977).

In addition to its own designs, Laurel distributed lamps from European manufacturers, including AV Mazzega from Murano and several other Italian and European makers. While production took place in Newark, the company often incorporated imported glass (especially Murano) and other components.

The company was acquired by Instrument Systems Corporation in 1969 and was dissolved in 1981; remaining assets were purchased by Westwood Lighting Group in 1983.

Martini Falconi Fois Architetti

Martini Falconi Fois Architetti was a design bureau founded by Piero De Martini, (Laura?) Falconi and Francesco Fois. The company designed several lamps for Reggiani. Piero De Martini, born in Milan in 1939, is the most well known designer. He graduated in Architecture in 1964.

Since 1969 he began to design and in 1975 he began to collaborate with furniture maker Cassina. In addition to his activity as a designer, he dedicates himself to music. In 2018Piero De Martini wrote the book “Le case della musica” (The houses of music) published by Il Saggiatore.

Reggiani

Goffredo Reggiani founded the company in the Italian town of Monza in 1957 and designed most of the lamps himself. In the beginning Goffredo most often used plywood and sanitised opal glass in his designs, giving his lights a Scandinavian look. Later in the 1960s and 1970s his interest shifted towards brass and chromed metal as you can see with this chandelier.

Designers that worked or work for the company, are among others: Álvaro Siza, Arup, the design company of Ove Arup. Bruno Gecchelin, D’Alesio & Santoro design studio. Fabio Reggiani, son of Goffredo, the founder of the company. The Fisher Marantz Stone design group, L.A.P.D. design studio, MOMO Design, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), studio Setsu & Shinobu, Speirs + Major and of course the Reggiani design team.

The Reggiani company still exists. It is active in 80 countries and has offices in Italy, the USA, the UK, China, France and Russia. 

Acrylic: often named by its commercial name: Perspex, Plexiglas, Crylux, Acrylite, Lucite, is a thermoplastic.