Atollo Table Lamps

Designer: Vico Magistretti
Year of birth: 1977
Historical value: The highest honor in Italian design - Compasso d'Oro (Golden Compass Award), 1979
Its structure consists of cylinders, cones and hemispheres, creating a simple and artistic luminaire form. Its design revolutionizes the image of traditional bedside lamps, combining decorative and practicality perfectly. Atollo lamps are available in a variety of sizes and finishes, including metal and glass, to meet the needs of different dressing styles and personal preferences. Its design is durable and has become one of Italy’s iconic designs.
Design Commentary: Atollo table lamp is known for its minimalist geometry, three basic geometry a cylinder, cone and sphere combined together, can turn a functional household item into a perfectly proportioned portrait sculpture. Atollo marks the simplicity and elegance of Italian design, and also changes people's imagination of traditional table lamps, showing a stunning contrast from other classic lamps. No matter from any angle, the lampshade of the hemisphere is like floating on the tip cone of a cylinder, while the light is reflected through the arc of the inner sphere, providing the space with soft light to meet the lighting needs, while demonstrating the capabilities that a perfect lamp must have – a foil to space and atmosphere.
Vico Magistretti was born in Milan in 1920 and graduated from Polytechnico in Milan in 1945, designing fields ranging from architecture, home furnishings to everyday objects. The ideal of modernism has a deep expectation, is committed to creating simple, functional, rational, elegant, nameless new design, known as the real design master of contemporary Italy.