Gatto Piccolo Table Lamp

The Gatto Piccolo table 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 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.

Arturo Eisenkeil, a Euro­pean importer of this special polymer made in the United States was looking for similar appli­ca­tions in Italy. With the Castiglioni Broth­ers’ and Tobia Scarpa’s explo­ration of the mate­r­ial to also create light­ing, he joined forces with Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina to form a company to produce these designs – result­ingly, Flos was created in 1962.

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