Beautiful Bahaus Design, The Wagenfeld Lampe
Since its creation by famous architect Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus school of design in Weimar, Germany has taught some of the 20th century’s significant designers and given birth to the Bahaus style. identified for using the stylistic face of modernism, Bahaus-style furniture shows volume rather than mass and highlights balance over pre-conceived symmetry. However, if one were to wants a simpler meaning of what the Bahaus style is, one would only glance at the Wagenfeld Lampe design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
One industrial style that is said to show the purest feature of the Bahaus Style is the supposed Wagenfeld Lampe. Also called as the Bahaus Lamp, the Lampe is an electrical table lamp comprises of a disc-shaped base, an extensive shaft, and a half-spherical lampshade. This lamp’s clear geometric built is common in designs made during the Bahaus period, and were produced in industrial materials such as glass and steel.
The Wagenfeld Lampe was first created in 1924 by designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld in cooperation with Karl Jucker during their stay at the Bahaus. According to the story, Wagenfeld created the design for the Lampe as the remedy} to an exercise offered to him by his professor, Hungarian constructivism artist and Bahaus administrator Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Wagenfeld’s and Jucker’s design for the Lampe was accepted positively in its release, and was admired by critics for its valuable simplicity and competent use of materials.
Nowadays the Wagenfeld Lampe is existing in two kinds: a glass and steel version. In the steel Lampe both the underside and stand is created from high class industrial steel. The steel parts are then painted with layers of nickel plating to help stop corrosion and to give the lamp a pleasing yellowish patina over time (low cost reproductions based on the lamp design replace the nickel with chrome plating). The glass class of the Wagenfeld lamp, in contrast, shows a stand and base made from thick glass. The stand also had an internal nickel heart in which the electrical feed line to the bulb is installed. Both types, however, give a milky-white lucid glass lampshade and a notable spout on the side where the pull cord is found.
Although it was initially designed during the early years of the 20th century, it was not until its ending years that it was really mass produced. In 1980 Wagenfeld partnered with the Bremen-based Technolumen Company to have the Wagenfeld Lampe model put into official production. Today Technolumen stays the sole licensed producer of the Lampe and is one of the most famous in its catalogue.
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