Lightings : Arco Lamp by Achille Castiglioni

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This lamp is featured in plenty of magazines and tv shows. By far this has to be the most iconic lamps from the 60s. No doubt its designed many decades back, but it still remain timeless & super classy. I recently got a lobang to get this at a fraction of the cost. However, its replica.

Do be careful if you plan to get a replica, cos there are plenty of manufacturers out there using poorer quality materials. such as replacing stainless steel & aluminum to regular steel that may rust. Marble could be man-made as well. There are plenty of this ranging along $250 - $700 along Jalan besar, Balestier & geylang, quite a couple of them had rust on them. Quality is important. Also there are plenty of fake, cheaper variations. Flat round marble base, round arm are just to name a few. The very original is like the pictures, rectangle marble with rectangular section arms.

Lamp is installed, click here to view more photos of this at our home.

Taken from: http://www.arcofloorlamp.com/
Arco lamp by Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos : functional elegance sums up this fantastic floor lamp designed by Achille Castiglioni for Flos in 1962.  The Arco lamp is a superbly executed work of art which duals as a stylish modern floor lamp; it features our favorite material by far; Italian Carrara marble. Carrara is a town in the Italian Alps where the quarries are located which produce this fantastic marble. 

The Arco lamp has remained unchanged and the current production is exactly the same as the ones produced in 1962 with exception of the electrical system which was upgraded.  The Arco lamps timeless elegance makes it look as modern now as when it was first produced in 1962. Possibly, hundreds of thousands of Arco floor lamps have been sold all over the world since 1962. 

This modern design cult object was a collaboration between Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and the lighting company Flos from Italy.  Achille Castiglioni himself once said that he found inspiration for the Arco lamp by looking at regular street lights in Italy during the early 1960's: perhaps because the shaft of the Arco lamp looks like the shaft of a traditional Italian street light during that period. The Arco lamp continues to be one of the most popular floor lamps ever made.
 
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