tosca table lamp

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tosca table lamp

Design Designwork, 2007
Blown glass, metal
Made in Italy by Foscarini

Tosca table lamp features a glossy blown glass diffuser available in white. The base, which can also be used as a tray for small objects, comes in opaque white. Tosca provides a warm, embracing atmosphere.

Founded in 2002 by Roberto Barazzuol and Artemio Croatto, Designwork deals with corporate image and communication, mainly in design and interior decoration fields.

19.75" h | base: 13" dia. | shade: 11.8" h | requires 1x150w incandescent

$959.00 + free shipping in the continental U.S.
(usually ships in 7-10 days)

Riccardo Olivieri set up Foscarini Spa in Murano in 1981. Two years later, they debuted their catalog, with lamps from Carlo Urbinati and Allesandro Vecchiato, who would become the company’s managers by 1988. Eventually these new owners would move the company off the island and into Venice, as well as transition Foscarini from a glassworks shop to a major design competitor. They had already begun working with external designers in 1985, but their first success came in 1990 with Rodolfo Dordoni’s “Lumiere.” Most all lighting projects were made of glass until 1993, at which point the Havana lamp primarily used polyethylene, making it lighter, more cost-effective, and able to be used indoors and outdoors. It now resides in the MoMA in New York. Other successful lamps would come to define the company, such as the “Mite & Tite” series by Marc Sadler in 2000 (which earned a Compasso d’oro), Patricia Urquiola’s 2005 “Caboche,” and Marc Sadler’s signature lamp "Twiggy."