Artek - AMA500 Pendant Light

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ARTEK FINLAND AMA 500 PENDANT LAMP.

Design by Aino Aalto.

Designed by Aino Aalto, Pendant Light AMA500 provides a soft and warm light. This elegantly beautiful pendant light was originally designed in 1941 for Villa Mairea. It is particularly well-suited for use over a dining table or a desk, as the soft warm light of the light is distributed over a wide area thanks to the flat shade. The perforated brass ring adorning the lower edge of the shade reduces glare, providing beauty and function in equal measure.

Providing a soft and warm light, the Artek AMA 500 is of mid-size and composed of sheet steel. Suitable as a single light source over a dining table or desk, its generous width sheds a substantial amount of light downwards. A true centre-piece, the AMA500 comes in two colour variations, classic white with brass details, or in a limited edition deep green with brass details, this one is identical to the pendant light hanging in the library of the Aaltos’ masterpiece Villa Mairea.

The dimensions are: Ø32 x H23 cm.
Materials: formed sheet steel and brass
Light source 1 x E27

The designer Aino Aalto,

Aino Aalto (1894-1949) was a well-known Finnish architect and designer. She studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology like her husband, the famous Alvar Aalto. In 1923 she went to work at the office of Gunnar A. Wahlroos, Jyväskylä, and switched to Alvar Aalto's office the following year.

This was the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership. In 1935 Aino Aalto, together with Alvar Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl, founded Artek, a world renowned furniture and lighting company. She played an important role in the company and worked as Managing Director of Artek from 1941 to 1949. Aino Aalto had a brilliant career as a furniture and interior designer, an architect and a photographer, but is mainly known for her glassware design.

Aino Aalto’s most famous design is probably the Aino Aalto glassware range, created in 1932 with the name of Bölgeblick, rings of water. The range was designed for a competition which was organized with the aim of producing drinking glasses that would be suitable for mass production.

Aino Aalto, who in the competition beated also her husband, Alvar Aalto, was inspired by the rings made when a stone hits the water. Her design gained immediate international recognition and won the Gold Medal in the 1936 Milan Triennal. In production since 1932, Aino Aalto’s glasses are ideal for the everyday use but also for elegant dinner parties. Their simple design is what makes them a timeless classic – perfect for the table still today as it was in 1932.

Weight: 1000

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