70s Bruno Gecchelin ‘Mezzaluna’ floorlamp for Skipper Pollux

Born in Milan in 1939, Bruno Gecchelin graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic School.
Since 1962 he has been designing furniture, decorative items and lighting equipment. His most important professional experiences include the designing of office and electronic machinery for Olivetti, to start with together with Ettore Sottsass and later on his own, accessories for the Panda car for Fiat and air-conditioning equipment for Riello. Other companies for which he has worked include Fratelli Guzzini, Frau, Arteluce, Indesit, Busnelli, Shipper, Antonangeli, Ycami, Venini and Magneti Marelli.
His work has received many awards, those of greatest prestige being the ”Lampada D’Oro” in 1980, the BIO/Lubiana in 1982 and 1988 and the Compasso D’Oro in 1989 and 1991. Since 1968 he has been working with Oluce and in 1985 this co-operation was marked by a recommendation for the Compasso d’Oro award for the Personal table lamp.
Italian furniture manufacturer Skipper & Pollux specialized in the production of stylish tables, desks, sideboards, chairs, and lighting fixtures. Although the circumstances surrounding the company’s inception is somewhat lost to history, Skipper’s surviving portfolio—especially 1970s and ’80s collaborations with designers Bruno Gecchelin, Claudio Sallochi, Hans von Klier, and, most saliently, Angelo Mangiarotti—has been rediscovered and reappraised on the vintage market.
Skipper remains beloved for gracefully blending modernist principles with an early, sculptural, almost Deco-esque step toward postmodern design. Gecchelin, in particular, was the most prolific contributor to Skipper’s lighting output. Concurrent to stints designing for Italy’s most progressive lighting manufacturers—Guzzini, Oluce, Venini, and Gino Sarfatti’s Arteluce—Gecchelin produced an array of minimalist lamps (table, wall, floor, desk, ceiling) for the company, often crafted in premium materials like marble and lacquered metal. A specific standout Skipper design includes Gecchelin’s Mezzeluna (1975), a high-voltage and quite tall floor lamp in Cararra marble and white lacquered metal.

This piece is in good condition and works well, it’s handle for dimming lightning on the lamphood itself is not working. This can be easily changed by installing a dimmer on the electric wire towards the lamp.