- Tizio
Tizio is a
desk lamp created byRichard Sapper forArtemide in 1972. It has been selected for theCompasso d'Oro industrial design award in 1979. An item of it is part of the collections of theMetropolitan Museum of Art ["Richard Sapper: "Tizio" table lamp (1988.236.10)". In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwcm/hod_1988.236.10.htm] (October 2006)] and of theMuseum of Modern Art . [ [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5162&page_number=5&template_id=1&sort_order=1 MoMA.org | The Collection | Richard Sapper. Tizio Table Lamp. 1971 ] ]The position and the direction of the bulb can be adjusted; thanks to two
counterweight s, moving it requires little effort. Two other features of this lamp is the lack of wires (the two parallel arms are used to conduct electricity to the bulb), and thehalogen bulb , which was previously mainly used in the automotive industry. [ [http://www.dwr.com/designers/?designer_id=271 Design Within Reach - Designers- Bio of Richard Sapper ] ]Bibliography
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Hans Höger . The Tizio-Light by Richard Sapper. Birkhäuser, Basel 1997References
ee also
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Balanced arm lamps
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