Artemide - Nesso table lamp orange
Nesso is an international icon of futuristic and democratic design. Designed by Giancarlo Mattioli and Gruppo Architetti Urbanisti Città Nuova, in the 60s. Part of the re-edited line "Modern Classics". It was a marvel of thermoplastic injection molding in ABS thus bringing materials and industrial methods into the home and office environments. A touch of color and a design inspired by nature. Nexus arises from the visionary identity of Artemis. Its iconic curves are articulate in a real collector’s item, an expressive piece of great caliber and international renown. Iconic work that has staged its presence in different landmarks, Nexus is considered a valuable work of art. An "icon" of design, part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Giancarlo Mattioli
Born in Bologna in 1933, Giancarlo Mattioli was an Italian designer, architect, urban planner, portrait painter, man, and intellectual, who enjoyed great success in the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated in architecture in Florence and, in 1961, founded the Urban Architects Group “Città Nuova” along with Pierluigi Cervellati, Umberto Maccaferri, Franco Morelli, Gianpaolo Mazzucato, and Mario Zaffagnini.
In 1965, with the Urban Architects Group “Città Nuova”, he participated in the competition “Studio Artemide Domus di Milano,” with which Artemide and Editrice Domus intended to discover new ways to conceive lamps as lighting objects.
The submitted project was a lamp inspired by the shape of jellyfish, in which Mattioli and the Group’s professionals worked on new ways to obtain a subdued environmental light using an appliance aimed at concealing the light bulb.
The project succeeded, and the lamp was produced from 1967 with the name Nesso; it then became a symbolic icon of those years, and enjoyed long-term fortune, as evidenced by the fact that it is still part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
Founded in 1960 by Ernesto Gismondi, chairman, the Artemide Group is located in Pregnana Milanese. It operates through 24 subsidiary and associated companies and boasts a distribution network including 55 single-brand showrooms in the world's most important cities. Artemide products are distributed in 98 several countries.
Technological research, dialogue with architects but also investigation are, indeed, for Artemide the basis of innovative projects able to illuminate the future.
Today Artemide collections represent a unique intersection of values. The human and responsible approach to light is combined with design and material know-how, in a meeting of the latest-generation technology and ancient knowledge, the perfect expression of sustainable design.
