Tizio Micro Desk Lamp

The Tizio series presents desk lamps for orientable task lighting. The Tizio Micro is 40% smaller than the Classic model. A contemporary fixture like the Tizio is a great way to bring a creative and funky look to your home.

FEATURES:

• Desk lamp
• Tizio Collection
• Designed by Richard Sapper
• Available in black, white or polished aluminum finish
• Fully adjustable, balanced, electrical conductor arms in anti-corrosion treated aluminum with black finish
• Arm spacer bars in chromed steel with red, molded thermoplastic insulators
• Counterweights in zinc alloy
• Adjustable diffuser in black molded thermoplastic with inner high efficiency reflector in anodized aluminum, with U.V. bulb protective glass
• 360° rotatable base in black molded thermoplastic with incorporated low voltage transformer and two-intensity on/off switch

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SPECIFICATIONS:

• Accommodates (1) 20 watt (G4/T3) halogen bulb (included)
• Overall dimensions, bent at body: 17" H x 19.5" W x 3.5" D
• Overall dimensions, fully extended: 30" H x 3.5" Dia

Specifications

RICHARD SAPPER

View all of Richard Sapper's designs

Richard Sapper (born 1932 in Munich) is a German industrial designer. He received a Compasso d'Oro industrial design award in 1959. Sapper partnered with Italian designer Marco Zanuso and were hired in 1959 as consultants to Brionvega, an Italian company trying to produce stylish electronics that would compete with products manufactured in Japan and Germany. They designed a series of radios and televisions that became enduring icons of an aesthetic known as techno-functionalism. One of their more notable designs was the rounded, compact and portable Doney 14 (1962), the first television to feature completely transistorized construction. Using the aesthetic of sculptural minimalism, the pair designed the compact folding Grillo telephone for Siemens and Italtel in 1965. The Grillo was one of the first telephones to put the dial and the earpiece on the same unit, and today is a featured display at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Sapper also created the Tizio lamp for Artemide and 1983 the Melodic kettle for Alessi. He started designing portable computers for IBM back in 1981, including the ThinkPad 770, and he continues today to influence the iconic ThinkPad brand design with Lenovo since it acquired the IBM PC Division in May 2005.

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