Fashion brand Bottega Veneta has partnered with lighting design company Flos on a special edition of designer Gino Sarfatti’s Model 600 table lamp.
The original Sarfatti lamp, designed for the designer’s company Arteluce, featured a sphere-shaped leather base filled with lead shot pellets.
The weighted and malleable base allowed for the light to be positioned across a large range of angles.
In collaboration with Bottega Veneta, Flos has rendered the leather base in two styles using the fashion brand’s signature woven leather.
The first uses the brand’s intrecciato technique of braided leather. The second style, called intreccio foulard, is similarly woven but the strips of leather are ruched before weaving to create a more textured look, adding volume and a sense of movement.
The new edition of the Model 600 has been made in two sizes and five different colours including black, grey, red, emerald green, and “Bottega Veneta green”.
The lamp features an LED bulb modelled on the same shape as the original light bulb.
Sarfatti founded lighting company Arteluce in 1939, which was then sold to Flos in 1973. The Model 600 table lamp was designed by Sarfatti in 1966 — the same year that Bottega Veneta was founded.
Suitable for floor or table use, the new Model 600 provides the ability to angle light, directly or indirectly, depending on the positioning of the reflector.
Sarfatti was one of Italy’s most innovative lighting designers, who had an experimental approach to material, form, and new lighting technology.
Other stories about Bottega Veneta recently featured on Dezeen include a range of animal-shaped beanbags and creative director Matthieu Blazy’s first store interior for the brand in Paris.
The photography is by Bottega Veneta.
