Bitossi Silk
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Silk, Ceramic
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jard...
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic, Pottery
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic, Fabric
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Fabric
Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
Terracotta
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Silk
Vintage 1960s Swedish Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Swedish Table Lamps
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Vintage 1960s Swedish Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Swedish Table Lamps
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Pottery
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Linen
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
Ceramic, Silk
Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
Ceramic, Silk
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Rope, Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
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Bitossi Silk For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Bitossi Silk?
Bitossi for sale on 1stDibs
Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of the famed Italian company Bitossi Ceramiche embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in Bitossi pottery that includes artisanal vintage vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass.
Bitossi was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical cats, owls, horses and other animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.”
But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. After hiring Sottsass to design ceramics for his New York imports company, Raymor, American entrepreneur Irving Richards connected the Milanese design polymath to Londi, who introduced Sottsass to ceramics in the 1950s.
During that decade, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis postmodern design collective in Milan, Sottsass used the Bitossi kilns to create timeless works that manifest both primitive forms and modern geometries. In later decades, Bitossi would welcome new generations of designers, which have included such names as Ginevra Bocini and Karim Rashid.
While always looking forward, Bitossi is firm in their belief that mastery of craft is the first step towards beautiful design. As you will see from the works offered on these pages, that is a winning philosophy.
Find a collection of vintage Bitossi decorative objects, lighting and serveware on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Lighting for You
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.