Franco Giovanni Legler Movalux Floor Lamp
Price on request
Historical Design
circa 1951
Brass, Aluminium, Light Fittings
150 x 210 x 37 cm
59.1 x 82.7 x 14.6 in
The Movalux Floor Lamp was designed by Franco Giovanni Legler for Arredoluce. Legler specialised in industrial design and sought to produce clean-lined silhouettes with technical innovations. He worked with metal to create the light-painted structure and designed all the breaks to be freely movable.
Literature:
R. Aloi, "Illuminazione d'oggi", Milan 1956, p.212
A. Pansera, A. Padoan and A. Palmaghini, SilvanaEditoriale (ed.), Arredoluce, Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1987, Milan 2018, for a related example p. 132.
Domus, TASCHEN (ed.), Volume 3, Cologne 2008, p. 268.
Location: France
Artist
Franco Giovanni Legler
Franco Giovanni Legler (1922 – 2015) was a Swiss-Italian industrial designer, widely known as the creator of the Basket Chair of 1951. He completed his education in the United States, and moved to Chicago where he founded his own design studio. In 1961, he returned to Zurich and developed his angular, finely balanced lamps.
