Eclisse from Artemide

The table and wall lamp eclisse was designed in 1967 by Vico Magistretti for Artemide and is a part of the modern classic collection. The modern classic lamps have now achieved cult status and are symbolic of the first ten years of the history of Artemide, an era in which originated the Italian design and found worldwide attention.

The eclisse lamp offers many possible applications. Two insensitive spheres that rotate independently of each other on a vertical axis. It arise a direct and diffused light emission.

Eclisse, designed by Vico Magistretti in 1965, won the Compasso d’Oro Award in 1967 and become ambassador of Italian design worldwide. Eclisse is an avant-garde balance between form and function, design and utility. The concept’s foundation lies in its functionality of adjusting the intensity of light through its rotating inner shade that “eclipses” the light source. In fact, with a fixed outer shell and a moveable inner shell the lamp can provide direct or diffuse light. 

A table lamp, it can also be wall mounted. Painted metal body available in white, red, orange or yellow and PVD version, made with an innovative and sustainable process of metal vacuum deposition ("sputtering"), available in black, brass, copper or mirror.

From the point of view of environmental-friendliness, “sputtering” is the absolutely cleanest coating technology for the type of metal used and because all emissions are abated, in particular those into the atmosphere of sulphuric acid and cyanides produced by galvanic processes. Solid paint with up to 5% of solvents (compared to 75% of traditional products) is employed for the successive protective clear-coat phase. The process generates very little waste and the resulting finish is particularly resistant over time.

Eclisse in part of the permanent collection of the most important design Museums, amongst many the MoMa in New York and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.