Gatto Lamp

The Gatto lamp is part of the iconic range of early 1960s light­ing designs from Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni that took its inspi­ra­tion from George Nelson’s struc­turally similar lamps for the Howard Miller Company in the late 1940s. Each piece in the Castiglioni Broth­ers’ collec­tion of suspen­sion and table lamps features an inter­nal powder-coated steel frame onto which a fibrous white polymer has been sprayed to form a ​“cocoon-like” skin that func­tions as a diffuser.

Noted here is the Gatto lamp that features a wonder­fully organic shape with a cylin­dri­cal base that tapers to form a neck, culmi­nat­ing in a balloon-like form. Gatto lamp is a fabu­lously sculp­tural piece that is a perfect scale for use as a lamp on an end/​occasional table. It is also wonder­ful paired with the Gatto Piccolo lamp– a smaller, comple­men­tary size that is avail­able in a separate listing.