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educed to a minimum, Eileen Gray’s Tube Light is radically modern and discretely integrates with any environment. The base, slender chrome-plated steel bar and light tube merge into a unity: a linear lamp that provides the light with a wide scatter due to the relatively large surface, emitting it softly and evenly into the environment. Tube Light was added to numerous design museum collections around the world as a design classic.

The curved line of the Roattino standing lamp looks as though a snake charmer had made the cable rise and the lamp head bend. An S-shaped bent steel tube guides the cable and rests on a black-lacquered base. Individual, non-conforming and with a tad of humor, this is a design typical for Eileen Gray. A simple asymmetrical fabric shade dims the light and makes Roattino an especially pleasant reading lamp.