SURROUNDING LIGHTING

• Kartell Lamps Pendant Lamps
• Kartell Lamps Index

Kartell was founded in Milan in 1949 by Giulio Castelli, a chemical engineer who believed that industrial plastics could produce objects of genuine aesthetic value. Over the following seven decades the company proved the point with a catalogue that spans furniture, storage and lighting - all unified by an uncompromising commitment to Italian manufacturing and to using plastic as a design material with its own integrity. The Bourgie table lamp by Ferruccio Laviani (2004) reinterpreted a Baroque candelabra in transparent polycarbonate - a joke that turned out to be genuinely beautiful and has been in continuous production for twenty years. The Battery portable lamp by Eugeni Quitllet brought Kartell's polycarbonate palette to cordless LED technology. Each lamp is manufactured at Kartell's factory in Noviglio, Milan.