Lumina Daphine Floor Lamp –

Lumina Daphine floor lamp half round perforated metal lampshade round holes 1970s Italy design: Tommaso Cimini

Lumina Daphine floor lamp half round metal lampshade & handle 1970s Italy design: Tommaso Cimini

Lumina Daphine floor lamp black cast iron base & transformer 1975 design: Tommaso Cimini Italy

Lumina Daphine Floor Lamp – 2020 Catalogue Pictures – Daphine Terra Halogen & LED

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Many thanks to Andrea of Lumina Italia for the catalogue pictures and the help.

Lumina Daphine Floor Lamp

Materials: Cast iron base & transformer with a built-in switch. 2 thin metal rods. Adjustable half-round brushed nickel plated lampshade with perforated round holes. Metal handle. Aluminium reflector. Porcelain socket.

Max Height: 143 cm / 17.71” – adjustable

Lampshade: 8 cm / 3.14”

Rods: 91 & 45 cm / 35.82 & 17.71”

Base: ∅ 21 cm / 8.26”

Electricity: 1 halogen bulb GY6.35, 1 x 50 watt maximum,12 volt, 220 volt. Any type of halogen bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred. It has a switch to toggle between 6 and 12 volts.

Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Tommaso Cimini in 1975.

Manufacturer: Lumina Italia srl, via Casorezzo, 63, 20010 Arluno (Milan), Italy.

Other versions: The Lumina Daphine floor lamp exists in several colours. It is named Daphine Terra. Today it is produced in LED. Also made as a a desk lamp.

Other lamps are named Daphinette, Daphine Cilindro and Daphine Cloe. Daphine Parete is the wall lamp version. You can find them all on the Lumina Italia website.

Lumina

The Lumina Italia lighting company was founded in 1975 by Tommaso Cimini (1947-1997) when he designed his famous Daphine table lamp. He designed this lamp made of a transformer and presented it on the Milan Fair in 1974. It was an instant success. Lumina itself started to produce several different lamps as a real lighting firm in 1980. Tommaso Cimini designed many lamps for his company. Among others the Daphine, Maxi, Zed, Imbutto, Elle and the Igloo.

Tommaso Cimini died in an aeroplane accident in 1997, leaving his company to his business partner and his oldest son Ettore.

Today the company is managed by his sons Ettore and Andrea, who carry on the family business. All lighting is produced in Italy in the plants near Milan in Arluno and is all handmade.

Several lamps are displayed in some of the most famous Museums of Modern Art and Design, such as the Musée d’Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Brooklyn Museum and the Judd Foundation in New York. Die Neue Sammlung in Munich and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Designers that worked for the company are amongst others: Walter Monici, Tommaso Cimini, Emanuele Rici, Yaacov Kaufman, Francesco Brambilla, Ettore Cimini, Giuseppe Linardi, Foster+Partners, Luciano Balestrini, Paola Longhi.