The Socialité Family Gioia Table Lamp

Thu Mar 10, 2022Table LampsCotton, Beech WoodConstance GennariWhite

GIOIA TABLE LAMP

GIOIA TABLE LAMP

Gioia table lamp, cream white lacquered beech base with a pleated cotton lampshade. "Gioia. Joy. The joy of being able to cast a gentle glow over a mantelpiece, at the end of a sofa or onto a bedside table. The Gioia lamp will become indispensable, wherever you place it."

Truly the signature piece of our lighting collection, the Gioia table lamp of The Socialte Family has a pink lacquered beech base and a pleated cotton lampshade.

FEATURES

GIOIA, A NAME THAT PAYS HOMAGE TO ITALY

Truly the signature piece of our lighting collection, the Gioia table lamp of The Socialte Family has a pink lacquered beech base and a pleated cotton lampshade. Like all of the products offered by The Socialite Family, the Gioia table lamp owes its name to Italy. Gioia means joy in the mother tongue of our founder and artistic director, Constance Gennari. This dual Franco-Italian identity is paramount for us. We are committed to ensuring you feel it, too. Above all, in the selection of our craftsmen and their expertise, where the Gioia table lamp is produced. Also in our inspiration, Italy being the birthplace of design.

VINTAGE INSPIRATION

Both the name and the shape of the Gioia table lamp transport us straight back to the 1970s. A prolific period in design as well as in fashion that was a real inspiration for Constance Gennari. These vintage inspirations are the starting point for all our creations. For the Gioia table lamp, we have drawn upon the aesthetics of the ’70s, which brought the generosity of rounded shapes into the spotlight. Consequently, the base of our model has rounded corners with the appearance of flower petals, to which the square edges of the fabric lampshade are added.

ONE TABLE LAMP, A THOUSAND POSIBILITIES

The Gioia lamp will become indispensable, wherever you place it. Use it in your room, placed on a bedside table or on a pile of beautiful books at the bottom of your bed. Its diffuse light will create an enveloping glow that will be restful for you or your child. A designer lamp in your youngster's room will be the beginning of an education in beauty.

A SIGNATURE DESIGN

Developed by our design studio, with the sculptural form of its base suggesting a flower and its pleated shade reminiscent of an elegant gown, the Gioia table lamp is a signature piece. A shining example of the artisanal savoir-faire so dear to us at The Socialite Family, exemplified in the choice of materials and finishes.

The Gioia plays on the contrast between the shiny lacquer of the wood and the pleated cotton shade that sets the tone. The promise of an elegant, timeless piece, modern, yet rétro. Like the Panchina bench or the Cavallo armchair, the Gioia table lamp matured for months and months in our minds and then in our hands. It is indeed representative of The Socialite Family style.

DESIGNER

CONSTANCE GENNARI

Founder and Artistic Director

Constance Gennari, a children's fashion journalist and, later, an art buyer for an advertising agency, founded The Socialite Family in 2013. As a mother of two children, she carefully observed the changing lifestyles of a new generation of parents.

With her camera and notebook in hand, Constance decided to meet these contemporary families and offer her readers "a sample of smart and cool families". Italian like her father, eternally elegant and always immaculately dressed, Constance Gennari shares her products with passion. In Milan, the cradle of design, she was inspired by and developed her taste for opaline, brass and striated wood.

Gino Sarfatti and Carlo Mollino shaped her imagination, and her mother, an artist, took her to the Parisian auction houses and flea markets at a very early age. A theatrical personality who fervently collects and educates Constance's eye, this ideal of elegance and the importance of savoir-faire runs through the whole of The Socialite Family collection.

With these inspiring face-to-face encounters through the media, her taste for decor, materials and forms, Constance designs pieces of furniture, lighting and decorative accessories, which she develops with the talent of The Socialite Family's Creative Studio. Quality products, timeless, elegant, based on genuine expertise, all at a fair price, without intermediaries and without resellers.

" In the Socialite family, there is, above all, the Mamma! The one who cooked for the four of us, her children, but above all the one who involved us in her mad passion! From the furniture found in the street downstairs at night, to the excitement of antiques auctions, to the chill of the flea markets on winter days. Our Mamma, took us, my brother Paolo, my sister Letizia and me, to explore that special world, with the constant quest for the singular and beautiful as its leitmotiv.

I remember the hours we spent waiting for her in the aisles between the stalls, dressed in our double-breasted coats and our English Start-Rite shoes. We were always very chic, and kept warm as we played for hours on end in the chill wind. These images come back to me and scroll through my head.

These memories of her, seeing her collecting different styles, and explaining how to recognise hand-made work and an era: an Empire Style bed one day, crystal glasses the next, and, on another, antique rugs. We must not forget Antonio, the father of the family, always dressed to the nines, and in search of a good deal, in love with women and love.

And the Nonna, our grandmother, a seamstress, ready to make us our most eccentric and exotic ballgowns! In my family, there have always been grand dinners, elegant tables set with antique dishes, colourful glasses and silver cutlery, with children dressed up and playing hide-and-seek under the embroidered tablecloths.

The stuff of which memories are made: elegant furniture with baroque music in the background. So theatrical!Cara famiglia, I cherish your independence of mind and your imagination which have given me my passion for materials, beauty, elegant lines, colours and above all design.“

- Constance Gennari