Bitossi Horse Table Lamp

Materials: Orange and black enamelled ceramics hors base. Brass rod. Fabric pagoda lampshade. Bakelite E27 socket.

Total height: 70 cm / 27.55”

Height: 40 cm / 15.74”

Width: 20 cm / 7.87”

Length: 43 cm / 16.92”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used. Not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1960s, 1970s.

Designer: Aldo Londi (1911-2003).

Manufacturer: Bitossi Ceramiche Srl, Via A. Gramsci 16, 50056 Montelupo Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.

Other versions: This Bitossi horse table lamp exists in several colours. These lamps were made from the sixties until the seventies.

Maioliche artistiche Guido Bitossi

In 1921 Guido Bitossi founded his company Maioliche artistiche Guido Bitossi (Guido Bitossi artistic majolica) a few kilometers away from the city of Florence in Montelupo Fiorentino.

After World War II, in 1946 Aldo Londi joined the company. a man with an innate creative and aesthetic sense, and a keen eye to the changes in the taste and the uniqueness of the Italian ceramics.

Londi worked for more than 50 years for the company. First as a painter, then as artistic director, and finally as tireless researcher of styles and examples to be emulated.

One of the most famous designers that worked for Bitossi was Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1917-2007). He started designing ceramics in 1955. A great number of experiments and collections have been designed by the architect over the years. 

Other designers that worked for the company: Antonella Cimatti, Arik Levy, Benjamin Hubert, Cedric Ragot, Dimorestudio, Elma Lisowski-Choung, Fabio Novembre, George Sowden, Gerard Taylor, Karim Rashid, Laura Bethan Wood, Luisa Bocchietto, Mario Ferrarini, Marco Zanini, Martine Bedine, Massimo Giacon, Matteo Thun, Max Lamb, Michele de Lucchi, Monica Föster, Nathalie du Pasquier, P. Palma & C. Vannicola, Piero Fornasetti, Remo Buti, and Ronon & Erwan Bouroullec.