Nuova Veneta Lumi Desk Lamp

Materials: Red painted round metal (iron) base. Rectangular black built-in switch. Black metal lid on the bottom. Curved black painted flat metal rod. Red aluminium mushroom lampshade, painted white inside. White painted Bakelite E27 socket.

Lampshade: ∅ 27 cm / 10.62”

Height: 38,5 cm / 15.15”

Base: ∅ 23 cm / 9.05”

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

Period: 1970s, 1980s.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Nuova Veneta Lumi, Italy.

Other versions: This Nuova Veneta Lumi desk lamp exists in several colours. Also made in chrome and gold colour. Later versions have a round switch in the base. This one is model Z2-90, later versions are model AMZ-885.

As with many lamps by Veneta Lumi, also this one was sold by several companies. You find it with labels from Massive, Prisma Milano Design and several other resellers.

Nuova Veneta Lumi 

The name Veneta Lumi says it all: lights made in the Veneto region in the north of Italy. The capital and the largest city is Venice.

Not much is found about the Veneta Lumi company. It was active from the late seventies until the nineties. They produced many lamps in the at the eighties very popular Memphis style, made famous by Ettore Sottsass. In the beginning the name was Nuova Veneta Lumi. Nuova = new. It became Veneta Lumi in the eighties. They also used the name Laguna Light in the nineties, also referring to Venice. 

Veneta Lumi also sold lighting produced by other companies such as Massive from Belgium and Fisher Leuchten from Germany.