Gino Marotta
Dalia

Dalia wall lamp / illuminated object
Produced by Design Centre for Poltronova, Italy
1968
White methacrylate diffuser and lacquered metal wall plate
3.9 x 21.7 x  21.7 inches
10.0 x 55 x 55 centimeters

Price and detailed condition available upon request

In the late 1960s, Poltronova founder Sergio Camilli asked a group of his friends to create lamps for a new project of his Design Centre. He did not place any constraints on the designers and architects—which included Archizoom, Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsass and Superstudio—who signed on. He only wanted the group to create “forms imbued with wonder and enchantment that could redesign the spaces in which [they] would gradually find themselves.” Artist Gino Marotta utilized his familiar palette of flora and fauna and created the Dalia lamp, a stylized version in methacrylate of the Dahlia flower from which the lamp takes its name.