Tizio

Tizio is a desk lamp, designed in 1972 by Richard Sapper for the Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide. It was recorded in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

Sapper stated that he had developed the lamp, as there were no workplace light, which seemed to him sufficiently practical. He wanted a light bulb with a small head on a movable arm, which must not be attached to the desk and the light cone is simply repositioned. The easy-to -use free positioning of the Leuchkörpers was reacted with two lamp arms at the ends of the counterweights are mounted so that the light in all directions is portable and stays in a set position. To circumvent the problem of disruptive cabling, the lamp was equipped with a low-voltage halogen lamp, which their arms could be used as electrical conduit.

At launch, 1972, the light because of the hitherto unknown movement in the arms and the type of power supply an innovation, in the 1980s they became because of its simple design become an icon of the high-tech design.