Gabriel Teixidó, Harpoon lamp for Fase

GABRIEL TEIXIDÓ (Barcelona, 1947) for Fase.
Arpón table lamp, 1970s.
Chrome and plastic.
Works. This lamp is an original vintage item, so it shows signs of wear and tear.
Measurements: 60 cm (total height); 40 cm (lampshade height); 80 cm (lampshade length).

The Arpón lamp, designed by Gabriel Teixidó in 1973, is a key piece of 20th century Spanish industrial design. It represented a radical turning point for Fase: the transition from the corporate luxury of the 1960s to the technical and avant-garde modernity of the 1970s. Produced by Fase, it has an elegant chrome structure, solid base and characteristic harpoon-type horizontal arm, designed to offer precise and functional lighting.

Gabriel Teixidó trained at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos in Barcelona and then set up as a freelance in 1970. Throughout his career he has collaborated with companies such as Andreu World, Kendo Mobiliario, Enea, Oken, Joker, Grassoler, Santa&Cole, Disform, Grupo T, Interi, Aridi, Biok, Point, Levesta and Permasa. He has been awarded two SIDI prizes for the Bolero chair in 1986 (Gasisa) and the Columba lamp in 1987 (Carpyen Iluminación), Delta de Plata prizes from ADI-FAD in 1997 for the HI-FI lamp (Carpyen Iluminación) and more recently in 1997 the Truck table from the company Aridi and the Apta chair from Andreu World were also selected as finalists in the ADI-FAD prizes. He defines himself as a designer who is "quite" industrial, and is not influenced by fashions. The designer himself says "what interests me is that my designs are useful, that people feel comfortable with them, that they are a help".