Eclisse

Eclisse Table Lamp, designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide in 1965. Eclisse is an avant-garde balance between form and function, design and utility. The design lies in its functionality of adjusting the intensity of light through its rotating inner shade that “eclipses” the light source. The fixed outer shell and moveable inner shell can provide direct or diffused light. The Eclisse Table Lamp 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, including MoMa in New York and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.