Oscar Torlasco

OSCAR TORLASCO (Rome, 1934-2004) for Lumi Milano.
Table lamp.
Metal.
With push button.
Measurements: 43 x 30 x 30 cm.

Italian design lamp manufactured in the 70s. It has a circular base from whose center emerges the straight shaft, wider in its central part, and finally an open diffuser.

Known for his lamps that diffuse a soft light through optical glass lenses, Roman designer Oscar Torlasco established himself in the 1950s and 1960s designing for several Italian companies specializing in lighting, such as Esperia, Stilux or Stilkronen. His most recognizable creations, such as the industrial-style lamps in brass and lacquered metal with adjustable light beams, are produced by the Milanese company Lumi (with which some of the great names of Made in Italy, from Gio Ponti to Nanda Vigo, have collaborated), while Fabbrica Apparecchi Illuminazione Greco S.p.A. produces for Torlasco the Genova 4053 street lamp, with which he won the Compasso d'Oro in 1959. Metal, the common denominator of his pieces, is also used by Torlasco for lamps and chandeliers of a much more eclectic taste, generally combined with marble, Murano glass and crystal.