TOIO

TOIO

Floor lamp

1962 Design: Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

1962 Production: Flos

A special 300 watt car headlight imported from the United States in the Sixties was used in this lamp.

Toio’s light source suggests the type of lighting, and the lamp components determine its shape. Thus a floor lamp providing indirect light was born from assembling ready-made industrial objects, modifying their functions and giving them new applications.

The universal transformer necessary to compensate the difference between the light source (125 volts) and European lines (220 volts) is in plain view on the enamelled metal base and serves as a counterweight to stabilize the lamp.

A metal structure on the base functions both as handle and stem carrier and has a hexagonal chromed metal stem equipped with fishing rod loops to hold the external electrical leads; a fixing screw allows regulating the height of the stem (from 170 to 200 cm); the remaining wire is rewound on two thin plates.

The light source has a special fitting at the top made of two curved metal bits welded to a metal ring.