BBPR "Ro" table lamp for Artemide, 1963. Polished chrome and ribbed pressed glass. Rare piece by the celebrated Milanese studio. Excellent vintage condition.

Specifications:

• Designer: BBPR (Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)


• Manufacturer: Artemide


• Country/Period: Italy, 1963




• Materials: Polished chrome metal, ribbed pressed glass


• Conditions: Excellent vintage; minimal patina and signs of use; both glass elements intact


• Dimensions: 43 × 42 cm (H × D)


• Literature: G. Gramigna, Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950–1980, Allemandi, 1985




• Price: €1,500


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BBPR — Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti, Rogers — was among the defining practices of Italian rationalism and postwar modernism. When Gian Luigi Banfi died in a concentration camp in 1945, the remaining three partners continued under the same acronym, a tribute sustained through decades of influential work in architecture and design. The Torre Velasca in Milan remains their most visible monument; their lighting and furniture output runs alongside it as a quieter, equally rigorous body of work.

Designed in 1963 for Artemide, the "Ro" looks backward and forward simultaneously. The wide, flat chrome disc shade and the ribbed pressed glass inner diffuser recall the formal vocabulary of Art Deco, while the use of industrial pressed glass and the precision of the chrome work place it firmly in the production culture of the early 1960s. The fluted glass cone filters the light before it reaches the reflective chrome above; the result is a warm, diffused glow directed downward onto the work surface, with a soft dome of light emerging from the top centre of the shade.

This example is in excellent vintage condition with minimal patina and signs of use. Both glass elements — the ribbed inner diffuser and the small dome at the top — are intact.