Description
Reflector and socket sleeve in black lacquered aluminum. Base in black sky filled with lead buckshot, adjustable in all directions.
Whether it is true that the design inspiration came from a bag of hunting buckshot, as maintained by historic coworker Anna Maria Costanza Fattori, or an ashtray positioned on the arm of a chair, typical of the period, that Gino Sarfatti remembered seeing in his grandmother’s house, this unit implied a remarkable and entirely new functional capacity, cofirmed by its long production period.
With original label
Exhibited at the 14th Triennal of Milan, May 1968
Literature:
Gino Sarfatti, Opere Scelte 1938-1973, Selected Works; Marco Romanelli, Sandra Severi; Silvana Editore; p. 340-341; p.439.
