‘ZODIAC’ FLOOR LIGHT

DESIGN: TON ALBERTS 1960IES

PRODUCER: RAAK AMSTERDAM

MEASUREMENTS: W 57, H 89, FRAME H 52 CM

PRICE: SOLD

Fantastic Zodiac floor light by Raak, Extra large ( and rare ) edition. Rosewood and steel frame holding a 50 cm glass globe. The glass globe evokes a great ambience of light. This great modernist floor light was designed by Belgian / Dutch architect and designer Anton Carel ( Ton ) Alberts. Alberts was also one of architects who later designed the remarkable organic Gasunie building in Groningen, Netherlands.

 

 

Dutch company RAAK Amsterdam has manufactured a large number of great lighting designs and was one of the Dutch leaders in developing progressive lighting during the fifties, sixties and seventies. The designs are often sophisticated and characteristic and they captured the spirit of these decades very well. The company’s design team worked with national and international designers ( E.J. Jelles, Frank Ligtelijn, H. Sneyders de Vogel, Ton Alberts).