I have always liked that huge 36' palm tree lamp marked Fiorucci.
Both palms have a pattern looking like Ettore Sottsass's 'Bacterio'. It has a 'Fiorucci' logo and a 'Targetti Sankey' manufacturer's mark.
The legend goes:
“only 5 were made for a Fiorucci store”
I have always liked that huge 36"
palm tree lamp marked Fiorucci.
Both palms have a pattern looking like Ettore Sottsass's 'Bacterio'. It has a 'Fiorucci' logo and a 'Targetti Sankey' manufacturer's mark.
The legend goes:
“only 5 were made for a Fiorucci store”
Beautiful story! But the Sottsass attribution always seemed phony. Sottsass is never so literal, but at the same time, like every master, he had many periods and I don’t know all Sottsass works (I can be wrong).
When you ask the seller for documentation they never have anything and quickly share auction results where the lamp was sold as “Ettore Sottsass for Fiorrucci.” I went through the many auctions results but there again not one library reference.
I have searched through every book I could get ahold of, hoping to find an old Fiorucci store photo with this lamp. I asked around me, but found no reference to this lamp anywhere.
Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and Andrea Branzi have worked on Fiorruci stores.
So as a last resort I contacted the Andrea Branzi office, which kindly replied that they don’t know the lamp, that it is not a design by Andrea Branzi. They redirected me to Barbara Radice who manages the Ettore Sottsass archives. She said that she had never seen the lamp before I showed her, ...
Beautiful story! But the Sottsass attribution always seemed phony. Sottsass is never so literal, but at the same time, like every master, he had many periods and I don’t know all Sottsass works (I can be wrong).
When you ask the seller for documentation they never have anything and quickly share auction results where the lamp was sold as “Ettore Sottsass for Fiorrucci.” I went through the many auctions results but there again not one library reference.
I have searched through every book I could get ahold of, hoping to find an old Fiorucci store photo with this lamp. I asked around me, but found no reference to this lamp anywhere.
Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and Andrea Branzi have worked on Fiorruci stores.
So as a last resort I contacted the Andrea Branzi office, which kindly replied that they don’t know the lamp, that it is not a design by Andrea Branzi.
They redirected me to Barbara Radice who manages the Ettore Sottsass archives. She said that she had never seen the lamp before I showed her, ...
...definitely not an Ettore Sottsass design.
Still a cool lamp considering the outrageous scale and design. But it's not by Ettore Sottsass. End of story.
...definitely not an Ettore Sottsass design.
Still a cool lamp considering the outrageous scale and design. But it's not by Ettore Sottsass. End of story.
I have always liked that huge 36' palm tree lamp marked Fiorucci.
Both palms have a pattern looking like Ettore Sottsass's 'Bacterio'. It has a 'Fiorucci' logo and a 'Targetti Sankey' manufacturer's mark.
The legend goes:
“only 5 were made for a Fiorucci store”
Beautiful story! But the Sottsass attribution always seemed phony. Sottsass is never so literal, but at the same time, like every master, he had many periods and I don’t know all Sottsass works (I can be wrong).
When you ask the seller for documentation they never have anything and quickly share auction results where the lamp was sold as “Ettore Sottsass for Fiorrucci.” I went through the many auctions results but there again not one library reference.
I have searched through every book I could get ahold of, hoping to find an old Fiorucci store photo with this lamp. I asked around me, but found no reference to this lamp anywhere.
I have always liked that huge 36' palm tree lamp marked Fiorucci.
Both palms have a pattern looking like Ettore Sottsass's 'Bacterio'. It has a 'Fiorucci' logo and a 'Targetti Sankey' manufacturer's mark.
The legend goes:
“only 5 were made for a Fiorucci store”
Beautiful story! But the Sottsass attribution always seemed phony. Sottsass is never so literal, but at the same time, like every master, he had many periods and I don’t know all Sottsass works (I can be wrong).
When you ask the seller for documentation they never have anything and quickly share auction results where the lamp was sold as “Ettore Sottsass for Fiorrucci.” I went through the many auctions results but there again not one library reference.
I have searched through every book I could get ahold of, hoping to find an old Fiorucci store photo with this lamp. I asked around me, but found no reference to this lamp anywhere.
Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and Andrea Branzi have worked on Fiorruci stores
So as a last resort I contacted the Andrea Branzi office, which kindly replied that they don’t know the lamp, that it is not a design by Andrea Branzi. They redirected me to Barbara Radice who manages the Ettore Sottsass archives. She said that she had never seen the lamp before I showed her, ...
...definitely not an
Ettore Sottsass design.
Still a cool lamp considering the outrageous scale and design. But it's not by Ettore Sottsass. End of story.
Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and Andrea Branzi have worked on Fiorruci stores.
So as a last resort I contacted the Andrea Branzi office, which kindly replied that they don’t know the lamp, that it is not a design by Andrea Branzi. They redirected me to Barbara Radice who manages the Ettore Sottsass archives. She said that she had never seen the lamp before I showed her, ...
...definitely not an Ettore Sottsass design.
Still a cool lamp considering the outrageous scale and design. But it's not by Ettore Sottsass. End of story.
Furniture for Fiorucci store by Ettore Sottsass and Michele De Lucchi
ESPRIT AND
THE IMAGE OF
THE EIGHTIES
IN THE PROJECTS
OF SOTTSASS ASSOCIATI
by INES TOLIC
Explore the topic with the excellent research paper by INES TOLIC: Fiorucci, Esprit and the image of the eighties in the projects of Sottsass Associati
Ettore Sottsass with Anita Bianchetti and Michele de Lucchi, Standard furniture for Fiorucci stores, February 1980. CSAC: Sottsass Ass., Standard furniture for Fiorucci, 1980, coll. 135/5
