Achille Castiglioni & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Toio

Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968)
 
Toio
 
A lacquered metal floor lamp.
 
The half spherical bulb vertically supported with an hexagon shaped, nickel-plated brass stem on white enamel steel base supporting a green lacquered transformer.
Flos sticker under the base.
Produced by Flos, Italy.
1962.
 
Dimensions
Height : 163 cm (64,17 in.)
Width : 21 cm (8,27 in.)
Depth : 20 cm (7,87 in.)
 
Literature
Domus n°400, March 1963, p.49
 
Abitare n°14, March 1963, p.42
 
Ottagono n°30, September 1973, p.153
 
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1985, p.188
 
Sergio Polano, Achille Castiglioni, Pall Mall, 2012, p.192-193.
 
Futurissimo, L’utopie du design italien, 1930-2000, Editions Villa Noailles/Centre Pompidou, 2021, p.123
 
Exhibition
Futurissimo : Toulon (France), Hôtel des Arts TPM - Centre d'art, 24 juin 2021-01 novembre 2021
 
Note
Early edition.
One lamp in the collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, Inv. AM 1997-1-102.
One lamp in the collection of the Triennale museum, Milan.
 
Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni applied their method of shaping form by assembling mass-produced objects. From the automotive industry they took a car headlight supported with a thin hexagonal metal stem. The transformer and the wires are exposed.
Only the strictly essential elements compose the lamp to create its raw design stating the Italian brothers’ functionalist philosophy.
 
 
Price on request.