Shogun Lamp

Swiss architect Mario Botta (born 1943, Mendrisio) is one of the leading figures of the Ticino school. As a young man he worked in the studios of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and he went on to design the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cathedral of Évry. His architecture is known for its solid geometric volumes, strict symmetry and bold striped masonry, and he applied the same rigour to a small number of furniture and lighting designs.

The Shogun lamp, designed for Artemide in 1986, is one of the key objects of Italian Postmodern design. Botta described his lamps as people with a head, a body and feet. Shogun’s black-and-white striped stem recalls his banded façades, and its perforated steel diffusers pivot to direct the light, like a samurai’s armour plates. The Shogun Tavolo is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Dimensions
Floor lamp (Shogun Terra): H: 195 cm x W: 30 cm x D: 31.5 cm