Specification 110-240 V / 50-60 Hz 1 x max.60W E27 (LED 11W) Recommended: LED lamp 7 W, matt (not included) Halogen bulbs are not suitable cable length: 2.5m This specified maximum wattage applies to conventional bulbs. Since these have however been off the market since 01.09.2009, we recommend energy-saving bulbs with about 1/5 of the specified wattage. Halogen bulbs are not suitable because these become much hotter than conventional bulbs.
Design Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1930
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Wilhelm Wagenfeld was a student in the Bauhaus metal workshop in Weimar when László Moholy-Nagy, the workshop's form master, set him an exercise: make a table lamp from glass and metal. The result, finished in 1924, became the object most people picture when they hear the word Bauhaus.
He went on to a long career in industrial design, working in glass and ceramics for mass production rather than for exhibition. The instinct never changed: hemisphere, cylinder, circular base, and nothing that is not doing work.
Tecnolumen is the only manufacturer licensed to produce the re-editions — a licence Wagenfeld granted personally to the company's founder. The catalogue runs from the WG 24 through the WA and WG table lamps to the WNL 30 multi-purpose lamp and the WSTL 30 floor lamp of 1930.
Hemisphere, cylinder, circular base. On a side table against green, and on a windowsill beside a sculpture — a century apart from Weimar.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld was a student in the Bauhaus metal workshop in Weimar when László Moholy-Nagy, the workshop's form master, set him the exercise of making a table lamp from glass and metal. The result, finished in 1924, became the object most people picture when they hear the word Bauhaus.
He went on to a long career in industrial design, working in glass and ceramics for mass production rather than for exhibition. The instinct stayed the same throughout: hemisphere, cylinder, circular base, and nothing that is not doing work.
Tecnolumen is the only manufacturer licensed to make the re-editions, a licence Wagenfeld granted personally to the company's founder. The catalogue runs from the WG 24 through the WA and WG table lamps to the WNL 30 multi-purpose lamp and the WSTL 30 floor lamp of 1930.
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.
