BRERA

BRERA

Hanging, table, wall and floor lamp

1962 Design: Achille Castiglioni

1992 Production: Flos

This lighting fixture originally designed as a hanging lamp is composed of a steel rose and stem, two slender electrical leads, a socket (E27) and an egg-shaped diffuser in acid-etched flashed opal glass.

Light continuity is ensured by splitting up the two parts of the diffusion elements, allowing the socket and the screw base of the bulb to cool easily.

This particular union of the parts makes it possible to set the lamp either way up, and this characteristic also makes it possible to apply the diffuser to other types of lighting equipment: table lamp, wall lamp and the floor lamp with three different heights (134, 178 and 197 cm).

These lamps have one principal design component in common: the diffuser, easily taken apart by means of a special ring nut in order to change the bulb.

The internal aeration permits incandescent bulbs up to 100 W and low energy light sources up to 120 W.

The shape of the diffuser is the origin of the name for the series, Brera, because it is reminiscent of the egg in Piera della Francesca’s painting, Pala dei Montefeltro, in the Brera Art Gallery in Milan.