Tomás Díaz Magro

TOMÁS DÍAZ MAGRO (Madrid, 1941) for Fase.
Sauce" table lamp, ca. 1969.
Aluminum.
Wooden handle.
Measurements: 70 x 80 x 22 cm.

Table lamp with arched foot and cylindrical lampshade with the base tracing a slight curve that contributes to generate a directed illumination. The design is inspired by the arc drawn by the branches of the weeping willow. The wooden handle also stands out, in harmony with the orange lacquered metal. Tomás Díaz Magro designed it in the late 1960s.

Known for his successful career as an industrial designer, Tomás Díaz Magro began his professional career in 1959 with the Spanish Society of Design. His research on the curved wood system earned him the Gold Medal at the Brussels Inventors Exhibition in 1961. Three years later, he was a founding member of the ODM, for the development of materials. Since 1968 he worked for Talleres de Arte Granda, and for other companies such as TAG, Otaola, Huarte furniture or LOEWE. Throughout his career he has been awarded on numerous occasions, including the IFI International Prize. 1988, the Brúmel International Award (prefabricated and mobile platform for Renfe.1991, and the BEDA International Award. 1993, among others. In addition, in 1998, he was part of the exhibition "Industrial Design in Spain; a century of creation and innovation", held at the Museo y Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. From the 80s onwards, Tomás Magro, who has always been linked to the world of design, began to devote himself entirely to artistic creation. His knowledge of materials and his mastery of matter have provided him with a skill that he develops in his balanced works of art, in the words of the author himself; "This daily contact with matter, imagination and drawing, have been creating a world full of ambition, understood as how to make the different proposals that were being generated a reality. I observed the works of the artists and I continue to see them out of the corner of my eye, I don't want to know more about them, I don't want to learn too much, their burden will weigh me down. However, I enjoy them inside me as a collector, some of them live with me".