Name: Tecnolumen | DMB30 Ceiling Lamp
Brand: Tecnolumen
SKU: TECLPL001
Price: 715.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Tecnolumen | DMB30 Ceiling Lamp

by Tecnolumen

Price shown includes UK VAT.

£715.00

Production Time
8 -12 Weeks

Dimensions
Height: 34cm x Diam ⌀60cm
Base: ⌀35cm

Material
nickel-plated metal/ opal and etched matt glass

Specification
1 x max.100W E27
230v
Recommended: energy-saving bulb 23w (not included)
* Each lamp is numbered consecutively and bears symbol Tecnolumen / BAUHAUS.
* The glass cylinder is opal coated, and is blown into shape by mouth, using a glassblower ́s pipe. Unevenness of the surface as well as the inclusion of tiny air bubbles is quite normal, but does not adversely affect the lighting 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.

Shipping & delivery Returns & cancellation

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

German · 1893–1983

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 is little more than that, and the HMB 29 of 1928 sets two glass spheres of different sizes against each other, one frosted and one glossy.

She also designed for the lighting manufacturer Kandem, work that reached ordinary households in large numbers and is among the clearest cases of Bauhaus ideas arriving in mass production.

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.