I have a set of these uplighters that I can't find any info on.
I suspect they are Italian design from the sixties because they are made using off the shelf auto parts. The lens in the light is from a Fiat car. I know Castiglioni and others where experimenting with industrial elements like this. Any ideas?
These look like the Bowling table lamps designed in 1969 by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi for Lumenform. The original used the headlight of a Fiat 666 found in a car junkyard.
They are rare lamps most likely because these were produced in low numbers and only available in a limited market. It is one of the lamps featured in Taschen/Fiell book 1000 Lights vol. 2 published in the early 2000. These lamps like so many lamp designs from the 1960's are great examples of the anti design/radical design that challenged the preconception of how objects should look like, in these case lamps which were embraced by the select few who were receptive to unconventional and experimental design ideas.
If I am seeing your images right, the light switch also has a pedigree and was one of the several light switches designed by Achille Castiglioni for VLM, also attached is the Fiat 666 truck where the headlights came from.
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