‘TOTUM’ FLOOR OR WALL LIGHTS

DESIGN: M. BOCCATO, G. NICOLA GIGANTE, A. ZAMBUSI

PRODUCER: ZERBETTO PADOVA ITALY 1970

MEASUREMENTS: 52 X 26 CM.

PRICE: SOLD

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If you’re looking for an outstanding effect this could be the right necessary piece; a pair of very cool ‘googie’ Totum lights by Italian producer Zerbetto Padova. Large, faceted plastic insect eyes, that glares into your room..! During the sixties, the Pop Art movement gave birth to a brand new mode of expression in furniture and lighting design; radically departing from all that had gone before, designers delighted in adopting the visual language of space flights, television, commerce and the ‘ordinary life’, to create work that was playful and provocative.

These lights are produced by the Italian Zerbetto company, which was founded in the late 40ies, and introduced from the very start fluorescent lighting technologie into Italian lighting design. Nicola Gigante also designed Zerbetto’s fluorescent tube light, in 1981.
Both lights are in good condition, the heavy shades are without cracks etc, the white aluminium case have some small usermarks. Both lights are working and the electral parts are checked. Each light contains one regular bulb holder inside.

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