Lot 903
  • 903

Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, 1917-2007

Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • 'Treetops' Floor lamp
  • lacquered metal
  • height: 186.5cm., 73 1/2 in.
  • Designed in 1981.

Literature

Memphis 1981-1989, exhibition catalogue, Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1989, ill.7
Barbara Radice, Memphis, London, 1985, p.65 for drawings of similar models and p.73 for a comparable lamp in Karl Lagerfeld's apartment in Monte Carlo

Condition

Colours are richer than suggested in catalogue illustration. A few chips to enamel painting, particularly to handle and orange stand, two most serious scratches to orange stand below handle, just visible in catalogue illustration, along approx. 4 cm each. Metal handle for adjusting position of shade loose. Old scratches to blue disk from where shade has grazed when repositioned. Burn marks to hammered metal reflector inside shade. A few chips to extreme edges of the metal of the base. Not tested or guaranteed for electricity.
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