Coupé Arched – Floor Lamp
$6,225.00
Design Joe Colombo, 1967
The Coupe Arched Floor lamp is made of a metal lacquered base and structure, a revolving and height adjustable chromium-plated arc and a lacquered aluminium reflector. The simple and ingenious mechanism that connects the stem to the head directs the beam in several directions by moving the dome up, down and sideways.
In 1968, Coupé won the ”International Design Award” of the American Institute of Interior Designers in Chicago. It is part of the permanent collection at both the MoMA in New York and the ”Neue Sammlung” Museum in Munich.
Manufacturer: | Oluce |
Material: | Metal and aluminium |
Finish: | Black or white |
Certifications: | CE rated |
IP Rating: | - |
Dimensions: | 63" x 74.8"/94.4" |
Cord Length: | - |
Light Source: | 1 x E26 |
Power: | 100W |
Lumens/CRI: | - |
Designer
JOE COLOMBO
Telling about Joe Colombo means telling the brief but intense parable of one of the greatest Italian designers, who died in 1971 at the young age of 41. It means telling about a life, as quick as lightning, of a man who strongly believed in the future and who gave us a very particular prefeguration of those fundamental 60s, when the future suddenly started to appear closer. Joe Colombo’s future was an anti-nostalgic future (he would not have recognised as ”future” the ’90s in which we live today), in which an intelligent technology would have helped every human activity, laying the foundations for completely new living models.
At the time, Joe Colombo designed entire living cells. The first one was for Bayer, Visiona ’69, an integrated cell divided in ”functional stations”: the ”Night-Cell” block (bed+cupboards+bathroom), the ”Kitchen-Box” (kitchen+dining room), the ”Central-Living” (living room). These functional stations are articulated mapwise as well as sectionwise, just like the homes designed by Joe Colombo, where floors and ceilings go up and down, continuously accelerating and slowing down within the interior dynamism, where shelves hang from above and lights are deep-set in the floor. This is probably the best known vision of Joe Colombo’s future, which makes us smile today and talk about a science fiction utopia, but another one exists, one that has been subject to less analysis and which, unlike the former, proposes independent single elements, which condense functions and which are finished and ready to use.