Key facts

Product:
Elmo table lamp
Manufacturer:
Phillips
Architonic ID:
4109489
Launched:
1976
Country:
United States
Category:
Lighting

Product description

Enameled metal, chrome-plated metal, brass.
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) high, 9 in. (22.9 cm) base diameter

Manufactured by Forma & Funzione, Italy.

This lamp originally designed for a competion for the offices of the Italian State Railway. It was nicknamed 'Yo Yo' due to the way the cable wound around the base.

Literature:
I Colombo: Joe Colombo 1930-1971 Gianni Colombo 1937-1993, exh. cat., Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, 1995, p. 204; Mateo Kries, Joe Colombo Inventing the Future, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 256