Artemide 2008–2009 catalog | Artemide, Italy

Click here or the cover below to read the Artemide 2008–2009 catalog.

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Artemide 2007–2008 catalog.
Artemide 2008–2009 catalog.
Artemide 2010 catalog.
Artemide 2011 catalog.
Artemide 2013 catalog.

Leafing through the Artemide catalogue is like retracing an important pathway in the history of contemporary design. Great masters, unique intuitions, patient research and tenacious innovative spirit, rewarded by innumerable prizes and consecrated in the most prestigious Museums worldwide, up to and including the most recent creations, expressions of the spirit of today and projected into the future. In almost half a century of business and entrepreneurial experience, a surprising continuity can be felt, placing the Artemide products outside and above traditions, trends, and fashions of the moment. The fil rouge [common thread] which characterises Artemide’s experience is the unexhausted desire to find solutions to the human demand for lighting, even if still unexpressed and unconscious. The person is constantly placed at the centre of the project; formal and aesthetic needs, technological innovations, individual and collective talents have been, are, and always will be, at the service of a special purpose. The Human Light: everywhere in the world, the light of Artemide for the wellness of man.

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June 10–June 16, 2013: Shared vintage modern plastic design

Here are the items that were shared the week of June 10, 2013.  Included were a cup dispenser, three lamps, a chair, a magazine holder, and wall tiles.

Monday, June 10: Orange plastic Dixie cup dispenser.  Counter top size, approximately 8-1/2” tall and 4” at widest point.

Tuesday, June 11: Binic table lamp by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini, Italy (2010). Measures 5-1/2” wide by 8” height.  Comes in 6 colors, requires one 12W E12 candelabra compact fluorescent bulb.

Wednesday, June 12: Pair of Toga chairs designed by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy (1968).

Thursday, June 13: Lamp with red plastic base and glass dome.  Measures 15cm diameter by 19cm height. 

Friday, June 14:  Asterisk base lamp.  Base is 6” wide.  No marks.

Saturday, June 15:  Magazine holder made of clear and smoked acrylic.  Measures 15” length by 12” width by 12” height.

Sunday, June 16: Three wall tiles in red, yellow, and green.  Perfect for a child’s room.  There are holes through the tops to put a string through so they can be hung on a wall.  Measure 6” by 6”.  Made in Sweden.

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Artemide 2007–2008 catalog | Artemide, Italy

Click here or the cover below to read the Artemide 2007–2008 catalog. 

Click to read the…

Artemide 2007–2008 catalog.
Artemide 2008–2009 catalog.
Artemide 2010 catalog.
Artemide 2011 catalog.
Artemide 2013 catalog.

The Artemide light has never been solely a function of seeing. Or an opportunity for formal experimentation with lamps as objects. For more than 40 years, the Artemide Group has aimed to propose light as a companion to people, as a source of physical pleasure and mental comfort. And they have done so, with different work groups, searching through the whole design process, starting with a declaration of values: The Human Light. Beyond the definition, The Human Light, is intelligent light, a light that knows it has to relate to people, accompanying them in their daily activities. That is why Artemide attention today is concentrated on the concept of the context of life, understood as a specific microenvironment in which an event occurs where one or more persons are the protagonists. Every context of life can be associated with different light contexts, or the different atmospheres of light characterised by the activities that, at various moments of the day, have us as protagonists. Starting from these contexts, and the lighting conditions that characterise them, Artemide proposes products capable of meeting people’s multiple needs and offering the light performance characteristics most suited to each moment of life. It is light that is flexible and adaptable, which produces the optimum visual precision, and consumes the minimum environmental resources. It is Artemide light.

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