Tolomeo Clip Spot

The Tolomeo Clip Spot features a spring clip luminaire for orientable incandescent direct/indirect lighting, suitable for shelf, pipe, table mounting.

FEATURES:

• Clip light
• Tolomeo Collection
• Designed by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina
• Body in high polished die-cast aluminum
• 6" diameter diffuser in stamped, anodized matte aluminum, tiltable and 360° rotatable on lampholder with incorporated on/off switch
• On-off switch incorporated in lampholder
• Spring action clip in metallic grey steel, with 1.75" maximum opening
• U.L. listed

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SPECIFICATIONS:

• Accommodates (1) 100 watt (E26/A19) incandescent bulb (not included)
• Overall dimensions: 9" H x 7" Dia

Specifications

MICHELE DE LUCCHI AND GIANCARLO FASSINA

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Michele De Lucchi started studying architecture at Padua University, switching to Florence University, where he took his diploma in 1975. For two years afterwards he taught architecture there as an academic assistant. In 1973 Michelle De Lucchi joined forces with other designers and architects to form Cavart, a radical design group. In 1978 Michele De Lucchi went to Milan to work for Kartell as a designer at Centrokappa, the proprietary Kartell design studio.

After meeting the designer Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi joined the Studio Alchimia designers. For Studio Alchimia exhibitions, Michele De Lucchi came up with several bizarre and comical designer objects, including the 1978 "Sinerpica" table lamp, which was virtually useless as a lamp, as was "Sinvola" (1979), which looks like an outsize pincushion with a rod bearing a light bulb stuck through the middle. In 1979 Michele De Lucchi also designed several prototype household appliances, which were shown at the Milan Triennale but never produced. From 1980 Michele De Lucchi belonged to Memphis, the designer group around Ettore Sottsass. In 1982 Michele De Lucchi designed "Lido", a colorful sofa, and, in 1983, the "First" chair for Memphis. In the late 1980s, Michele De Lucchi again returned to good design, landing a bestseller in "Tolomeo", a clearcut, functional aluminium work lamp he co-designed with Giancarlo Fassina for Artemide in 1987.

Giancarlo Fassina was born in Milan where he obtained a degree in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He worked and has experience in different product industrial sectors but decided to devote himself to the design of projecting lamps and planning and furnishing exhibitions and museums.

Giancarlo Fassina cooperated with the most important companies in the lighting sector, Luceplan included, for which he created the Birzi Table Lamp together with Carlo Forcolini.

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