Staff Saturno Pendant Lamp

Staff Saturno pendant lamp round brass ring slats lampshade design: Kazuo Motozawa Yamagiwa Japan 1970s Germany

Staff Saturno pendant lamp 1970 design: Kazuo Motozawa rectangular paper label 100 Watt maximum 1970s Germany

Staff Saturno Pendant Lamp – 1971 Advertisement

Staff Saturno Pendant Lamp – Long Chrome Version

Kazuo Motozawa Aureola Table Lamps – re-edition

Kazuo Motozawa

Kazuo Motozawa

Many thanks to Frank from nullviernull raum+kommunikation for the pictures. You can find his shop over here on Pamono.

Materials: Stacked brass plated metal (iron) slat rings lampshade. Round brass coloured metal lid on top. Some brass plated metal parts. White painted Bakelite E27 socket.

Cord Length: 70 cm / 27.55”

Height: 23 cm / 9.05”

Width: ∅ 40 cm / 15.74”

Electricity: 1bulbE27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Anytypeof light bulbcanbeused, not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Kazuo Motozawa around 1970.

Manufacturer: Yamagiwa Corporation, Japan.

Other versions: This Staff Saturno pendant lamp exists in several versions and sizes. Also table lamps were made. The table lamp exists also in white, you can find it over here. A similar pendant lamp is named Aureola.

The Areola table lamps were relaunched for a while around 2010. Pricing was +- 270 euro/dollar.

Models 5633 and 5639 won an iF Design Award in 1971.

These lamps were all made by the Japanese lighting company Yamagiwa. In Europe these lamps were sold by Staff & Schwarz from Germany.

Kazuo Motozawa

Kazuo Motozawa was born in Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan in 1945. He graduated from the Musashino Junior College Craft and Industrial Design Department in 1968. After his studies he designed several lamps for Yamagiwa. From 1977 until 1985 he was the director of LD Yamagiwa Laboratory. In 1987 Motozawa established HALO Design Laboratory, Inc. Kazuo Motozawa exhibited frequently and achieved many awards.

Yamagiwa

The Yamagiwa corporation was founded in 1923 by Hirofumi Yamagiwa (1900-1947). Yamagiwa is the leading Japanese lighting manufacturer. The company also sells lighting from several lamp producers from around the globe. Among others: FLOS, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Poulsen, Artemide, Hans-Agne Jakobsson, Le Klint, Anglepoise, Tom Dixon and many more. Yamagiwa is part of Maruwa Co., Ltd.

Staff

Staff Leuchten – Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerke (lighting plant) was founded in 1945 in Lemgo, (West) Germany by Alfred Staff (1908–1989) and Otto Schwarz (1902–1951). After the war they left the Soviet occupation zone and set up a small three-man business in Lemgo producing consumer goods in wood and metal, repair work and pesticide against the Colorado potato beetle. The location in Westphalia-Lippe was chosen deliberately: the area already had veneer and lighting manufacturers, which made it a natural base for a new lighting company.

In 1946 Staff produced its first wrought-iron lamps, followed by large orders for spa complexes in the region. After the death of Otto Schwarz in 1951,Alfred Staff took over all shares and shifted the focus from project lighting to serial production of innovative, design-oriented luminaires.

From the late 1950s onwards the company became one of Germany’s most decorated lighting manufacturers. Staff was among the first winners of the “Gute Industrieform” (today iF Design) awards at the Hanover Fair, and over the next three decades collected more than 200 design prizes. In the 1960s the firm built up an international sales network, introduced the Variolux electronic dimmer (1966) and launched Lite-Trac (1967), one of the first VDE-compliant track lighting systems, which helped to position Staff as a pioneer in architectural and technical lighting.

Staff collaborated with numerous designers, including Rolf Krüger, Motoko Ishii, Kazuo Motozawa, Arnold Berges, Gerhard Beigel, Alfred Kalthoff and others. Several Japanese designs originally created for Yamagiwa – such as Motozawa’s Saturno series – were marketed in Europe by Staff, while some Staff models were licensed to other brands. In the 1970s the company published a joint catalogue with Stilnovo, and lamps from Staff appeared in catalogues from Raak, the Netherlands, and the Danish Lyfa, among others.

In the early 1990s the Austrian Zumtobel Group gradually acquired the company: in 1993 it took a majority stake, and by 1994 owned 100% of the shares. The lighting activities were continued under the brand Zumtobel Staff, with the Staff name remaining in use until 2006. The Lemgo factory is still one of Zumtobel’s key production sites for spotlights and lighting systems.

Lamps In The Movies

Le Fantôme de la Liberté (1974)

A Staff Saturno table lamp was used as a prop in the 1974French surrealist comedy drama film Le Fantôme de la Liberté (The Phantom of Liberty). Starring Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau and Jean-Claude Brialy. Here together with a Harvey Guzzini Forma table lamp. More info about this table lamp over here.