Oluce - Colombo anodic bronzeceiling lamp

The visionary and futuristic designer Joe Colombo designed the Colombo lamp in 1970, on the wave of the rapid diffusion of the halogen light. The design is in fact one of the first domestic lamps to use the new type of bulb. The design of the Colombo lamp – base, chrome stem and adjustable reflector – responds to the demands for clean shapes and technological functionality that go hand in hand with the concept and design of this great designer.

Produced in several variants – floor, wall or ceiling lamp – the Colombo family of products remains, even after more than 40 years, one of the top sellers from the Oluce catalogue.

To mark its 50th anniversary, Colombo family was updated in modern LED dimmer version.

Joe Colombo

Telling Joe Colombo means telling the short and intense story of one of the greatest Italian designers, who died in 1971, at only 41 years old. The lightning-fast life of a man who strongly believed in the future and who, just in those fundamental '60s when the future suddenly began to seem close, gave us a very particular foreshadowing. Joe Colombo then designed entire cockpits. First of all, per la Bayer, il Visiona ’69, cellula integrata definita da differenti ”stazioni funzionali”: il blocco ”Night-Cell” (letto+armadiature+bagno), il ”Kitchen-Box” (cucina+pranzo), il ”Central-Living” (soggiorno). Functional stations articulated both in plan and in section, as on the other hand happened daily in the houses designed by Joe Colombo, where the floors and ceilings went up and down in a continuous acceleration and slowing of the internal dynamism, where the bookcases were suspended high and the lights recessed to the floor.
Telling Joe Colombo then means telling someone for whom research always crossed, on the one hand in artistic research (just think of the extraordinary Acrylic lamp and its relationships with kinetic and programmed experiences), on the other in scientific research (It is certainly the one on the application of new materials and new technologies: we have already said about halogen light, so let’s think about injection molding - the very famous chair for Kartell in 1968).
And many things could still be said by telling Joe Colombo, but above all the poignant observation prevails that the short years "of fantasy in power" were also the brief magical years of Joe Colombo. Fate prevented us from knowing what this visionary genius would do in the dark period that followed. Still today, however, twenty-five years later, many of its products, then futures, live alongside us every day, continuing to tell us about a better future.

Oluce

Founded in 1945, Oluce is the oldest Italian design company in the illumination sector still in operation today. The design qualities of the lamps make them icons that communicate across the generations to become an integral part of the homes they furnish.Thanks to their expressive power, the iconic forms of products made by Oluce articulate a visual grammar that becomes a narrative. Stories, suggestions, emotions are revealed through the profile of the lamps.
During its history, the company has received numerous awards, including two Compassi d'Oro, two Design Awards and the Gold Medal at the XIII Milan Triennale. Its lamps appear in the world's most important permanent design collections.