The 1970s in Italy produced a parallel track of decorative lighting that ran alongside the canonical names: a dense network of smaller Turin-based and northern Italian manufacturers conceived lighting objects as sculpture-objects, merging metalwork tradition with an expressive language close to Arte Povera and the decorative brutalism circulating in that decade. Valdelsa, a Turin firm, belongs to this under-catalogued sector of Italian production. This table lamp is a document of that manufacturing culture — an object that functions simultaneously as a light source and as an autonomous decorative relief, conceived for representative interiors of the period. The lamp is built entirely in metal across all its components. The base is a cylindrical collar joint in black-lacquered steel from which rises a central stem. The stem terminates in the main body: a square panel approximately 42 × 42 cm in black-lacquered steel, into which a worked relief surface in burnished metal with gold-bronze tones is inset. The relief is composed of irregular, fragmented elements distributed across the panel surface in a mosaic-like arrangement, intercalated with deep cobalt-blue lacquered fields — creating a strong chromatic opposition between warm metallic tones and the cold, saturated blue. Small incandescent point sources are embedded directly into the relief at regular intervals, so that when lit the panel reads as a field of distributed light. A striated, layered central motif reinforces the pictorial quality of the composition. Total height 54 cm, width 42 cm, depth 13 cm.
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SILVER Seller in Bari, Italy
