Luigi Pellegrin Desk Lamp –

Luigi Pellegrin desk lamp model D804 1970s Candle Italy Foggia Library label

Luigi Pellegrin Architect – Lifetime Achievement Award – October 2000

Candle

The Italian Candle company was located in Milan, Italy. The company had also affiliates in Rome and Turin. Designers that worked for the company, were amongst others: M. Ferrari, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, A. Fornaroli, G. Botturi, S. Lo Bianco – Bocola, and many others.

In 1993 FontanaArte acquired the company. It became an additional corporate division that could come up with a collection specifically for younger people. Upcoming designers were hired to offer the market quality at a more competitive price.

Designers were: Fernando and Humberto Campana, Giorgio and Max Pajetta, Riccardo Giovanetti, Francesco Gobbi, Luciano Pagani and Angelo Perversi, Charles Williams, Jonathan Daifuku, Silvio Caputo, Tim Power, Pierluigi Cerri, Christophe Pillet and so on…

But also well known designers such as Vico Magistretti and Sergio Asti made their contribution.

The name Candle is no longer in use. All lighting is produced by FontanaArte.

Many thanks to Andrea Sarzi Braga for his contribution and the photos.

Luigi Pellegrin Desk Lamp

Materials: White painted metal round flat base. Chromed metal (iron) tube. White painted curved elongated iron lampshade. White painted Bakelite E14 socket.

Height: 30.5 cm / 12.00”

Width: 30 cm / 11.81”

Base: ∅ 20 cm / 7.87”

Electricity: 1 bulb E14, 1 x 60 watt max, 110 – 220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, but a small one is preferred.

Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Luigi Pellegrin (1925-2001) and Leonardo Fiori (1926-2008).

Manufacturer: Candle, Via Salaino 7, Milan, Italy.

Other versions: No other versions exists of this Luigi Pellegrin desk lamp model D804.

Luigi Pellegrin

Luigi Pellegrin was born in Courcelette, France in 1925 and died in Rome, Italy in 2001.

He designed this lamp, model D804 in 1974 (some source say 1972), during the works of construction of the Foggia library in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southern Italy together with Leonardo Fiori. He also designed all the furniture and other lamps for the renewed library. Luigi Pellegrin is among the greatest exponents of organic architecture.

He graduated in Rome, and after a period of study in the United States, he began his professional career at the beginning of the 1950s becoming part of ‘APAO, the Association for Organic Architecture, founded by Bruno Zevi.

He has curated numerous projects both in Italy and in many foreign countries (Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Spain, Venezuela), including many school buildings, patenting some prefabricated building systems.

Since the 1980s he worked in particular on the great plans (plan for Novoli in Florence, Italy and the master plan for the State Railways in Rome).

Architectural Design

Luigi Pellegrin was professor of architectural design at the University “La Sapienza” and visiting professor at the University of Houston (USA). His works in Rome, Italy include: the buildings in the Piccolomini street (1958), square Clodius (1959) and the L. Bodio street (1961); the competition for the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies offices (1967), the primary school in the A. Bertolotti street (1975), and many others.

He also realized: INA-house neighborhoods in Ascoli Piceno (1957), Galatina (1958), Terracina (1961), and Gaeta (1962); post offices in Saronno and Suzara (1958), the Health Plan and urban quality of the area of Beles, Ethiopia (1987); the Plan for Novoli in Florence (1988, in collaboration); the Justice Palaces of Syracuse (interior decoration, 1988-95), Vallo della Lucania (1991-99) and Mantua (1992-2000).

MIM

Luigi Pellegrin is internationally most famous for the seating he designed for the Italian company MIM (Mobili Italiani Moderni – Italian Modern Furniture), where the young Luigi was mentored by the famous Ico Parisi who founded the MIM company.

“The architect is not a professional, he is an entity chosen by the social group to view and build the level of quality achieved by that group; realized then that the body will function as an incubator, organizing in positive exchanges the real conflicts of the moment ” – Luigi Pellegrin.