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: Martini Falconi Fois Architetti – attributed.

Manufacturer: Reggiani Spa Illuminazione, Viale Monza 16,
20845 Sovico, Milan, Italy – attributed.

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.

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 French, as you can see.

Certainly in the Harvey Guzzini style, but is it a Guzzini lamp? I’ve never seen them in a catalogue…

De Martini, Falconi & Fois

This series of lamps shows the most resemblance to the lamps that De Martini, Falconi & Fois designed for Reggiani. There is a good chance that it is.

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Laurel

The Laurel Lamp company of Newark, New Jersey, USA was active from the 40s until the 70s. They not only produced lighting, but the company also sold several lamps from European designers and manufactures. They were located at 111 Rome Street.

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 2018 Piero 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.