Arco (lamp)
{{Short description|1960s Italian floor lamp}}
{{Infobox furniture|name=Arco Floor Lamp|image=File:- ITALY - Lampada Arco di Achille Castiglioni per Flos ( 1962 ).svg|designer=Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and Achille Castiglioni|materials=spun aluminum, stainless steel, marble|height={{Convert|241.5|cm|in|abbr=on}}|date=1962}}
The Arco lamp is a modern floor lamp designed by brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni for {{ill|Flos S.p.A. (company)|lt=Flos|it|FLOS}} in 1962.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/property/interiors/the-secret-history-of-the-arco-light-2211229.html|title=The Secret History Of: The Arco light|date=2011-02-11|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}} The lamp is characterized by a suspended spun aluminum pendant attached to an upright block of Carrara marble via a cantilevered arching arm made of stainless steel.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/arts/02iht-design02.html|title=When Cliché Grows Out of Distinction|last=Rawsthorn|first=Alice|date=2012-07-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. Arco Floor Lamp. 1962 {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/1942 |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}
The lamp has been in constant production since its original release in 1962.{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/design-icon-arco-floor-lamp-italy-flos/|title=Design as Icon: Arco Floor Lamp|date=2018-02-20|website=Architectural Digest India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}}
History
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In November 2006, Flos brought charges against Semeraro Casa & Famiglia SpA, claiming that the company had violated copyright law in selling a similar lamp named "Fluida." Advocate General Yves Bot deemed that while the Fluida lamp was created in imitation of the original Arco design, production of the product was legal as the original design had since entered the public domain. Following the 2001 implementation of the Directive on the legal protection of designs, Bot ordered Semeraro to cease production of the Fluida lamp.{{Cite book |last1=Rader |first1=Randall R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WQHCgAAQBAJ&dq=arco+lamp&pg=PA93 |title=Law, Politics and Revenue Extraction on Intellectual Property |last2=Iimura |first2=Toshiaki |last3=Voit |first3=Thomas J. R. |last4=Reboul |first4=Yves |last5=Adelman |first5=Martin J. |last6=Wang |first6=Mei-Hsin |last7=Nachtrab |first7=Kevin B. |last8=Kim |first8=Sun-Jeong |date=2015-03-01 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443879262 |language=en}}
In 2020, the Arco lamp was one of three designs to be awarded the "Products Career Award", a newly created category of Compasso d'Oro for historical designs that have proven to be highly successful over time but were not awarded at the time of their inception.{{Cite web |title=ARCO |url=https://www.adidesignmuseum.org/en/schede/arco/ |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=ADI Design Museum |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=The winners of the 2020 Compasso d'Oro Awards |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/design/gallery/2020/09/09/the-winners-of-the-compasso-doro-awards.html |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=Domus magazine |language=en-gb}}