Tecnolumen | Bauhaus Pendant Lamp with Opal Ball

Tecnolumen | Bauhaus Pendant Lamp with Opal Ball | HL 99

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£234.00

Size Diam 20cm Diam 25cm Diam 30cm Diam 35cm Diam 40cm

Production Time
4 Weeks

This hanging lamp, consisting of a chrome-plated or polished brass tube with an opal ball, was created by an unknown designer in 1900. It was one of the first lighting fixture designs developed for electric light bulbs. It has enriched the interior designs of many architects, such as Peter Behrens, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann. The Bauhaus had similar designs by Marianne Brandt and Hans Przyrembel. This lamp was manufactured in large numbers in the 1920s and 30s, when it was mainly used in schools and offices.
They are available in five sizes: with 200mm, 250mm, 300mm, 350mm and 400mm large opal balls. The chrome-plated or polished brass tube is 1m long, but can easily be shortened by sawing off, because the hanger holds the rod without thread.
Each lamp is numbered consecutively and bears the Tecnolumen signet.
Net weight: 1.2 kg (Ø 200mm), 1.8 kg (Ø 250mm), 2.5 kg (Ø 300mm), 4.4 kg (Ø 350mm), 4.9 kg (Ø 400mm),
Recommended illuminant: LED lamp 8 W, matt
Length : 1200mm
Power supply: 110-240V / 50-60 Hz
Bulb socket: E27
Safety class: I
Maximum wattage (thermal):
HL99/200: 60 W
HL99/250: 75 W
HL99/300-400: 100 W
Recommended bulbs: Energy-saving bulb 20 / 23 / 30 W

Made to order — about 4 weeks

This piece is produced to order by the maker. Production usually takes about 4 weeks, after which we despatch it from London.

Because it is built for you, cancellation is limited once production has started on a configuration you specified. Please check the timing before you order — and ask us if the date matters.

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Story

The Bauhaus lamps

Marianne Brandt & others, from 1923

Marianne Brandt joined the Bauhaus metal workshop in Weimar in 1924 and later ran it — the only woman to lead the department.

Her lamps are built from the plainest geometry available: an opal glass sphere, a metal rod, a ceiling plate. The DMB 26 pendant of 1926, made with fellow student Hin Bredendieck, is little more than that — a sphere, three thin rods, a round plate, and nothing added to hide the fixing. The HMB 29 of 1928 sets two spheres of different sizes against each other, one frosted and one glossy.

Tecnolumen produces these alongside the other lamps of the same years — the BH 23, the SF 28, the HL 99 — as re-editions of the workshop's output rather than as a styled collection.

Brand

About Tecnolumen

A Bremen workshop founded in 1980, Tecnolumen is the only licensed maker of Wagenfeld's 1924 Bauhaus lamp.

In 1976 Walter Schnepel found a 1924 table lamp gathering dust in Wilhelm Wagenfeld's studio and asked why it had never been produced. Wagenfeld's answer — why don't you do it — became Tecnolumen in 1980.

The Bremen workshop is still the only one licensed to make that lamp, and the logo is the only guarantee of an original. Around it sits a small collection of Bauhaus-era designs.