Tecnolumen | DMB26 Ceiling Lamp Nickel

by Tecnolumen

Price shown includes UK VAT.

£649.00

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

Production Time
8-12 Weeks

Dimensions
Height: 46/51/56/61cm x Diam ⌀25/⌀30/⌀35/⌀40cm

Material
opal glass ball / nickel

Specification
1 x max.75W E27
230v
Recommended: energy-saving bulb 23 / 30 W (not included)
* Each lamp is numbered consecutively and bears the Tecnolumen / BAUHAUS logo
* The glass ball is flashed-opal and mouth-blown in one piece by means of a glass-blower's pipe. Some surface unevenness and small air bubbles are normal and do not impair the illumination quality

Made to order — about 8–12 weeks

This piece is produced to order by the maker. Production usually takes about 8–12 weeks, after which we despatch it from London.

This is one of the longer lead times we carry. Because the piece 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.

Designer

Designed by Marianne Brandt & Hin Bredendieck

German · DMB 26, 1926

The DMB 26 ceiling lamp came out of a collaboration between Marianne Brandt, who ran the Bauhaus metal workshop, and Hin Bredendieck, a fellow student there.

It is close to the minimum a pendant lamp can be: an opal glass sphere, three thin rods, a round ceiling plate. Nothing is added to hide the fixing.

Bredendieck later emigrated to the United States and founded the industrial design programme at Georgia Tech, where he taught for over two decades.

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.