After models by Gabriella Crespi

After models by GABRIELLA CRESPI (Saronno, Italy, 1922- Milan, Italy, 2017).
Ceiling lamp, ca. 1970s.
Bamboo, rattan and brass.
Measurements: 25 x 55 x 55 cm.

Ceiling lamp with a shade in the shape of a wide-brimmed hat, made of bamboo and rattan. The use of this type of natural materials, also used in the rings that make up the pendant, as well as the flared shapes follow the style of Gabriella Crespi. They were very popular models in the 1970s.

Gabriella Crespi studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, where her work was influenced by LE Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. From the 1950s she devoted herself to creating furniture and other objects that balanced design and sculptural abstraction. Crespi began her career as a designer in the 1950s with her first production of objects, the ‘Small Lune Collection’, steel sculptures in the shape of a moon. In the early 1960s she collaborated with the Maison Dior. In 1968 the prototype of his first ‘Plurimo’ was exhibited in Dallas, representing the Italian design of the time. In 1970 he began his collaboration on the famous ‘Plurimi’ series with ‘metamorphic’ furniture (‘Magic Cube’, ‘2000’, ‘Dama’, ‘Scultura’). Between 1970 and 1974 she created her most significant lost wax works, including the sculpture ‘My Soul’ (1974), the collections ‘Animali’ (bronze sculptures with a fairy-like air that reveal Gabriella's unceasing attention to the natural world. ), ‘Jewels’ and ‘Gocce Oro’: fluid sculptures conceived through the ancient and precious process of lost wax casting. Between 1972 and 1975 she designed the ‘Quick Change Sofa’, the ‘Z’ line (‘Z Bar’, ‘Z Desk’) and the bamboo collection ‘Rising Sun’, a material dear to Crespi's heart which, according to her, ‘Unites strength and flexibility’. The famous ‘Fungo’ lamps (1973) are part of this collection. In 2008, she created for Stella McCartney a limited re-edition of some of her jewellery collections from the 1970s. In 2011, the Royal Palace in Milan dedicated the great anthology ‘The Sign and the Spirit’ to her. In April 2012 Gabriella Crespi Srl was founded with the aim of promoting the new creations of the Artist-Designer. In the same year the Gabriella Crespi Archive was created within the Company, directed by the Artist's daughter, Elisabetta Crespi.