Designing and service companies

Abstract

Two table lamps have had extraordinary success in recent design history. The Tolomeo by Michele De Lucchi and the Tizio by Richard Sapper. For a long time, my preference went for the latter. At least until the Tizio began to irritate me precisely because of its perfection: I mean that balance of weights and counterweights on which the design is organised, so perfect that it even required the renunciation of the traditional electric wire.