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“Spiral” Lamp by Ingo Maurer for Design M, Germany, circa 1966

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Beautiful “Spiral” model lamp typical of the 1960s attributed to the designer Ingo Maurer for Design M, chrome metal base and white opaline glass globe. Biography : Born in 1932 in Germany, on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance, Ingo Maurer trained as a graphic designer between 1954 and 1958. He moved to the United States, and for 3 years, worked as an independent designer for Kaiser Aluminum and IBM. In 1966, he returned to Germany and opened Design M in Munich, a company specializing in lighting. The same year, he designed his first light fixture, Bulb, a giant bulb in chrome-plated metal and blown glass, for installation in the Herman Miller showroom. In 1973, Design M became Ingo Maurer Lighting GmbH, which remains today and employs around sixty people. In 2005, his production possibilities increased and he opened a new production and shipping facility on the outskirts of Munich. What was initially just a simple manufacturing room would later become the brand's only European showroom, after the one in New York. Maurer's passion for the bare light bulb and its inventor, Thomas Edison, would remain throughout his career. His work is largely influenced by Pop Art, which is why some of his designs, such as Bulb Bulb (1980) are decidedly kitsch. In addition to this lighting line, Maurer is responsible for projects such as artistic installations, or even interior lighting designs. His work is included in collections around the world, and is exhibited in numerous museum exhibitions, such as Provoking Magic at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, in 2007. Maurer has received several awards and titles, such as that of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (1986), the Georg Jensen Prize in Copenhagen (2002), and the title of Royal Designer of Industry from the Royal Society of Arts, in London (2005).

Creator:

Design M (Manufacturer),Ingo Maurer (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 14.97 in (38 cm)Diameter: 8.67 in (22 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Opaline Glass,Steel

Place of Origin:

Germany

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1966

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

PARIS, FR

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3860338763072

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German designer Ingo Maurer (1932–2019) was known as a “poet of light” for how he artfully created lamps that married form and function, from bulbs that soared on goose-feather wings to chandeliers that suspended bursts of shattered tableware like a slow-motion explosion. One of his first lamps, a 1966 design that was merely called Bulb, nested a lightbulb inside a larger glass lightbulb shape, drawing on his connection to German art traditions of reductive forms as well as Pop art and the playful aesthetics of 1960s pop culture. The success of Bulb — its fans included American design icon Charles Eames — led to the founding of his own company to produce this provocative fixture as well as other fantastic lighting designs.

Born on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance in southern Germany, Maurer apprenticed at a newspaper before moving to the United States in 1960. In New York and California, Maurer initially worked as a graphic designer for IBM and elsewhere before returning to Germany with his then-wife, designer Dorothee Becker, in 1963. The experience that Maurer gained in typography and bold forms was regularly expressed in the lamps crafted by his company, which was called Design M before the name was changed to Ingo Maurer GmbH. The lighting manufacturer is still based in Munich.

Some of Maurer’s pieces were minimal, such as a ceramic table lamp in 1996 he called Broken Egg, which radiated light from a fissure in an oblong shape, while others were monumental, such as the designer’s last completed installation — a colossal chandelier composed of over 3,000 silver-plated leaves — in Munich’s Residenztheater. Maurer was always at the forefront of lighting innovations, exploring holograms, LEDs and OLEDs in his projects. Through his company, the venturesome Maurer also promoted inventive new designers, including Moritz Waldemeyer, whose My New Flame (2012) imagined a futuristic candle with LEDs.

Ingo Maurer GmbH continues to produce the late designer’s distinctive table lamps, chandeliers and other fixtures, including the imaginative Bulb that started it all.

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