This small table lamp is composed of two glass elements: a white globe that diffuses brightness into softness, and a butter-yellow base shaped like a flying saucer. Together, they generate a form that feels both playful and speculative — a dialogue between planetary imagination and the intimacy of a bedside object.
The lamp belongs to a time when Italian glassmakers embraced bold chromatic gestures and experimental silhouettes. Yet it also speaks in the present: its spaceship-like base reads as a metaphor for futures imagined in the past, a reminder of how design translates collective dreams into domestic prototypes.
What emerges is more than illumination. It is a small cosmology — light contained, reflected, refracted — inviting us to rethink how everyday objects hold memory, fantasy, and ecological resonance within their fragile material.
OBJECT SPECIFICATIONS
PRODUCT: Space Age table lamp
ORIGIN: Italy
PERIOD: 1970s
STYLE: Space Age
MATERIAL & TECHNIQUE: Blown glass, two-part construction; chrome metal
COLOR: White opaline globe, butter-yellow base, chrome metal
TEXTURE: Smooth, glossy surface
DIMENSIONS: (+-) Height: 23 cm; Diameter: 19 cm
ELECTRICAL CONNECTION: original | verified | bulb E27, not included
CONDITION: Excellent condition
Space Age — homes like laboratories of tomorrow
More than a style, Space Age was a sensibility — an era when design stretched toward the cosmos, translating the promises of science and technology into domestic forms. Between the late 1950s and 1970s, objects acquired aerodynamic curves, glossy plastics, and metallic surfaces, echoing satellites and rockets. It was a language of optimism and speculation, where furniture, lighting, and everyday items became prototypes of imagined futures. Today, Space Age design resonates as both a memory of utopian exploration and a material archive of humanity’s longing to inhabit other worlds.