It was the inadequacies of an Italian standard lamp that prompted Rico and Rosmarie Baltensweiler to develop a floor lamp of their own back in 1951. Easy to adjust and simply designed, the model the electrical engineer and interior designer came up with has become a classic in the Baltensweiler collection. But as a smiling Rosmarie Baltensweiler reveals in a film celebrating the firm’s 60th anniversary, it didn’t even have a name for a long time. Only when somebody ordered “the one that looks like a sun” did she and her husband decide it was time to give it a proper name and christened the floor lamp TYPE 600. What started out as a way to meet their own needs and with no commercial intentions struck a chord – initially with architects and friends – and eventually laid the foundations for the Baltensweiler company and its lighting collection. The products are characterised by the fact that their design and technology are always geared towards the development of the light sources, result… continue
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