Elio Martinelli, Vertebra lamp for Martinelli Luce

ELIO MARTINELLI (Lucca 1922-2004) for Martinelli Luce.
Table lamp "model 660", design of the 70s.
Metal and plastic material.
With publisher's labels.
In good condition.

The lamp in tender is distinguished by its shaft "vertebra" adjustable and adaptable to different heights and positions. Its base with recesses is designed for the placement of office objects. The dome-shaped lampshade offers a diaphanous and balanced light.

Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence as a set designer, Elio Martinelli began to take his first steps in the field of lighting in the business of his father Plinio. After a few years and after several experiences in the scenography sector, he decides to start his own business focusing on interior design and set-up of stores, restaurants, hotels and pubs. Due to the need to finish his plans, he draws and realizes the lighting fixtures on his own. During the 50's, Elio accentuates his simple and rigorous inspiration giving a strong impulse to his company that becomes a point of reference for Italian design in the geometry of lighting and nature considered from its multiple forms. A crescendo of intuitions and experimentations using new materials such as methacrylate. From these first tests were born very different lamps such as Foglia, Bolle, Cobra or Biconica.
Elio Martinelli was an inexhaustible source of ideas and innovation whose design objects such as Cobra, Bolla, Semisfera and many others are still examples of this original design impulse.