Artemide - Nessino table lamp white

Table lamp, with polycarbonate structure and diffuser emanating a diffused and direct light. Nessino is the reproduction of Nesso, an international icon of futuristic and democratic design. Designed by Giancarlo Mattioli and Gruppo Architetti Urbanisti Città Nuova. Its iconic curves unfold in a real collector’s item, an expressive piece of great caliber and international fame.

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.

Artemide

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.