Wagenfeld Lampe An Industrial Design Designed By Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Acknowledged as one of the most victorious works of the Staatliches Bauhaus or the Bahaus School of Walter Gropius, the German industrial creator Wilhelm Wagenfeld brought life to some of the world’s most prominent industrial designs. And of all the styles he has produced in his lifetime, possibly none were as notorious as his Wagenfeld Lampe.
It is said that a man is best identified by his talent. If that were the case, then for Wilhelm Wagenfeld it would be the Wagenfeld Lampe. Regard as by many as Wagenfeld’s most popular creation, the Wagenfeld Lampe is a mall glass and steel table lamp composed of a flat, disc-like base, a tubelike lamp stand, and an ivory-white clear glass lampshade. Wagenfeld designed the Lampe in collaboration with Karl Jacob Jucker in 1924 during their journeyman years at the Staatliches Bauhaus. The lamp was said to have been made as the solution to an assignment given to Wagenfeld by one of his professors, the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus administrator Lazlo Moholy-Nagy.
Although it is one design, the Wagenfeld is currently finished in two distinct versions. In the first type, the base and stand are made from industrial grade nickel-plated steel. Wagenfeld Lampes have also been made with chrome-plated steel, thiugh the nickel-plated ones are much more wanted after and can easily be identified through the yellowish patina the nickel presents over time. In the second variation, on the other hand, the base and stand are made from transparent plate glass. The stand on the glass type also features a nickel-plated steel tube in its inner core where the electrical feed line is housed, and gives the Lampe an “x-ray” look.
Recently, Technolumen, a company that specializes in reproducing Bauhaus designs, is the official manufacturer of the Wagenfeld Lampe.
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Window Hardware | Jane | 13 May 2010 |
