Oscar Torlasco Table Lamp 533/P

Materials: Round black painted brass base. Ochre painted brass. Brass rod. Adjustable round elongated brass lampshade, painted white inside. Glass optic lens. Some brass parts and screws. Bakelite E27 socket.

Height: 38 cm / 14.96”

Width: 21 cm / 8.26”

Base: ∅ 12 cm / 4.72”

Electricity: 1 bulb E14, 1 x 40 watt maximum, 110/220 volt. Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1950s, 1960s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Oscar Torlasco (1934-2004).

Manufacturer: Lumi Cripa S.R.L., Via Imperia 20 and Piazza Missori 2,  Milan, Italy.

Other versions: This Oscar Torlasco table lamp 533 was made in some variations over the years. All of them were designed in the late 50s, early 60s. Some of these lamps were produced for many years. This table lamp also exists as a wall lamp.

Oscar Torlasco

Born in Rome, Italy in 1934, Oscar Torlasco designed many beautiful lamps. The most well known are the lamps he designed for Lumi. Torlasco designed for several Italian lighting manufacturers including Esperia, Stilux, Lamperti and Stilkronen. Most of his designs are from the 50s and 60s. For many lamps he uses optic lenses for spreading and diffusing the light. It is his trademark. In 1959 Torlasco won the Italian design award, the “Compasso d’Oro” (Golden Compass) for his Genova 4053 street lighting. The lamps was in production by Fabbrica Apparecchi Illuminazione Greco S.p.A.. Oscar Torlasco passed away in 2004.

Lumi

In 1944 Carlo Antonio Crippa created his “workshop” Lumi (lights). Cripa surrounded himself with the most prominent designers, such as Guglielmo Berchicci, Anselmo De Sanctis, Pia Guidetti (Cripa), Maurizio Favetta, Ugo la Pietra, Giò Ponti, Prospero Rasulo, Alessandro Scilipoti, Matteo Thun, Gianni Veneziano and Luciana Di Virgilio (Veneziano & Team), Mario Vallini, Nanda Vigo and of course Oscar Torlasco. The Lumi company always uses high quality materials.

Today the company is still a workshop where materials are shaped according to the artist’s imagination. All crafting by hand, even by using modern technology. For many crystal lamps and chandeliers Lumi produces today Swarovski is involved. The company is still in family hands and the third generation is now at the helm. Lumi is part of the Falb group.