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Fontana Arte Nobi

Metis Lighting Fontana Arte Nobi Floor Lamp in Frosted Glass, Designed in 1992
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed by Metis Lighting in 1992 and manufactured by Fontana Arte, the Nobi floor lamp guarantees
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal

Nobi Floor Lamp by Fontana Arte, 1990s
By Fontana Arte
Located in Chicago, IL
Nobi floor lamp by Fontana Arte. Chrome with glass shade, circa 1990.
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20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Chrome

Four "Nobi" Wall Lamps by Metis Lighting for Fontana Arte, 1992
By Metis Lighting, Fontana Arte
Located in Sacile, PN
Four "NOBI" wall lamps by Metis Lighting for Fontana Arte, 1992. The wall lamp Nobi guarantees
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1990s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

Fontana Arte "Optunia" Floor Lamp Designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune
By Fontana Arte, Claesson Koivisto Rune
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Optunia" is a floor lamp, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune and manufactured by Fontana Arte
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Aluminum

Fontana Arte "Optunia" Cast Glass Table Lamp by Claesson Koivisto Rune
By Fontana Arte, Claesson Koivisto Rune
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Metal, Aluminum

Nobi Floor Lamp with 4 Diffusers Designed by Metis Lighting for FontanaArte
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi 4" is a floor lamp, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Chrome, Nickel, Metal, Aluminum

Fontana Arte "Nobi" LED Wall Lamp Sconce with Glass Diffuser, Metis Lighting
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi" is a wall lamp sconce, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by Fontana Arte
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Aluminum, Chrome, Nickel, Metal

Fontana Arte "Nobi" LED Floor Lamp in Chrome or Nickel Designed, Metis Lighting
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi" is a floor lamp, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by Fontana Arte, featuring a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Chrome, Nickel, Metal, Aluminum

"Nobi" Wall Lamp with Frosted Glass Diffuser by Metis Lighting for FontanaArte
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi" is a wall lamp, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Chrome, Nickel, Metal, Aluminum

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Fontana Arte Nobi Ceiling Lamp, Glass and Chrome
By Fontana Arte, Metis Lighting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Fontana Arte nobi ceiling lamp, Italian lighting company Fontana Arte. Rotating central element
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Fontana Arte Nobi Floor Lamp Chrome Steel Metis Lighting 1992, Italian Modern
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Fontana Arte Lamp Nobi
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an interdisciplinary synthesis. For FontanaArte they designed the entire Nobi series in the early 90s
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 Fontana Arte Lamp Nobi
 Fontana Arte Lamp Nobi
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Nobi Applique by Metis Lighting for Fontana Arte, 1990s, Set of 3
By Metis Lighting, Fontana Arte
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Fontana Arte Nobi For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic fontana arte nobi available at 1stDibs. A fontana arte nobi — often made from metal, glass and chrome — can elevate any home. Find 4 options for an antique or vintage fontana arte nobi now, or shop our selection of 4 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. Your living room may not be complete without a fontana arte nobi — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right fontana arte nobi, those designed in Modern and Mid-Century Modern styles are of considerable interest.

How Much is a Fontana Arte Nobi?

The average selling price for a fontana arte nobi at 1stDibs is $909, while they’re typically $378 on the low end and $1,250 for the highest priced.

Fontana Arte for sale on 1stDibs

Best known for its elegant and innovative vintage lighting fixtures, the Milan-based firm Fontana Arte pioneered one of the key features of 20th-century and contemporary Italian design: the union of artistry and industry wrought by partnerships between creative talents — chiefly architects — and entrepreneurial businesses. Fontana Arte is further distinguished by having had as artistic director, in succession, four of Italy’s most inventive modernist designers: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, French transplant Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti.

The bread and butter of the glassmaking company that Luigi Fontana founded in 1881 was plate-glass panels for the construction industry. In 1930, Fontana met Ponti — then the artistic director of the Richard Ginori ceramics workshop and the editor of the influential magazine Domus — at a biannual design exhibition that became the precursor to today’s Milan Design Triennale, and the two hatched an idea for a furniture and housewares firm. Fontana Arte was incorporated in 1932 with Ponti as its chief of design. He contributed several lamps that remain among the company’s signature works, including the orb-atop-cone Bilia table lamp and the 0024 pendant — a stratified hanging sphere.

The following year, Fontana Arte partnered with the influential Milan studio glassmaker and retailer Pietro Chiesa, who took over as artistic director. Chiesa’s designs for lighting — as well as for tables and items including vases and ashtrays — express an appreciation for fluidity and simplicity of line, as seen in works such as his flute-shaped Luminator floor lamp and the 1932 Fontana table — an arched sheet of glass that is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Six years after Chiesa’s 1948 death, the École des Beaux Arts–trained Max Ingrand took over as head of design at Fontana Arte. Ingrand brought a similarly expressive formal sensibility to wares such as lamps and mirrors, but he also had a masterful eye for the manipulation of glass surfaces — whether they be cut, frosted, acid-etched or sand-blasted. His classic design is the Fontana table lamp of 1954, which has a truncated cone shade and curved body, both of which are made of pure, chic white-frosted glass.

Following Ingrand, the often-audacious Italian architect Gae Aulenti served as the company’s artistic director from 1979 to 1996, and while she generally insisted that furnishings take second place aesthetically to architecture, she made an exception for Fontana Arte pieces such as the Tavolo con Ruote series of glass coffee and dining tables on wheels, bold lighting pieces such as the Parola series and the Giova, a combination flower vase and table lamp. As a key incubator of modern design under Aulenti’s tenure, Fontana Arte remained true to its long-held commitment — creating objects that have never been less than daring.

Find vintage Fontana Arte lighting fixtures such as pendants, table lamps and more on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Modern Furniture

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”

Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.

Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chaircrafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.

It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.

Finding the Right Lighting for You

The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.

Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.

Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat. 

Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.

As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.

There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation

With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.

The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.