Tizio Classic X30 Desk Lamp

Special edition of the original 1972 Tizio Classic table model, created to celebrate 30 years of design, of light and of the Tizio Xperience (1972-2002). Tizio X30 features a brilliant finish obtained through the high gloss polishing of the aluminum base, head and arms components and the matching chrome plating of the zinc alloy counterweights.

FEATURES:

• Desk lamp
• Tizio Collection
• Designed by Richard Sapper
• Original full size
• Base and head in solid die-cast aluminum
• Fully adjustable, balanced, electrical conductor arms in anti-corrosion treated aluminum
• Arm spacer bars in chromed steel with red, molded thermo-plastic insulators
• Counter weights in zinc alloy
• Adjustable diffuser in die-cast aluminum with inner high efficiency reflector in anodized aluminum, with U.V. bulb protective glass
• Adjustable diffuser in molded thermoplastic with inner high efficiency reflector in anodized aluminum, with U.V. bulb protective glass
• 360° rotatable base in die-cast aluminum with incorporated low voltage transformer and two-intensity on/off switch
• Special edition number and signature of designer Richard Sapper laser engraved in the upper arm
• Special gift packing with a Tizio design history booklet enclosed
• U.L. listed

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SPECIFICATIONS:

• Accommodates (1) 50 watt (GY6.35/T4) halogen bulb (included)
• Overall dimensions, bent at body: 26" H x 30.75" W x 4.25" D
• Overall dimensions, fully extended: 47" H x 4.25" Dia

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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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