TACCIA

TACCIA

Table lamp providing reflected light

1958 Design: Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

1962 Production: Flos

The lamp’s light source is concealed in the base to prevent direct blinding light.

The light is reflected from a white convex metal disc supported by a clear glass paraboloid that rotates on a circular support so the light can be aimed in the desired direction with no need to fix it mechanically.

The base, made of a chromed metal cylinder with holes at both ends, contains the socket for a 100 watt bulb and has a profiled cover varnished with heat resistant paint. The covering element has two functions: it prevents the light from shining out of the base and avoids contact with the very hot base, creating a cavity that favours a cooling flow of air. For the designers, this element is comparable to the radiator fins that cool engines.

This lamp was fine tuned in 1958 and presented the year after in March at the Illinois Institute of Design and the Chicago Institute of Technology. Interested in mass producing it, Flos, was involved in the study for the definitive prototype and began selling it in 1962.