The Bauhaus, the famous German design school during the Weimar Republic, still enjoys international recognition today. It was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, moved to Dessau in 1926 and 1932 to Berlin. 1933, the school was forced to close by the Nazis. Designers who emerged from the Bauhaus include Marianne Brandt, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Josef Albers. They have created works of timeless beauty that are reproduced today by TECNOLUMEN.
TECNOLUMEN was founded in 1980 by Walter Schnepel and is today the world's best-known manufacturer of historic lamps and other products designed during the Bauhaus period.
The first product, a classic among lights and still a timeless, sought-after light today thanks to its appealing design, was the Wagenfeld table lamp. The table lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld was designed in 1923/24, demonstrates the design intent of the Bauhaus like no other lamp and still sets the standard for modern designers today.
Other Bauhaus design classics were quickly added to the TECNOLUMEN range. These include developments by Marianne Brandt, Josef Albers, Gyula Julius Pap and Hans Przyrembel. The product portfolio is complemented by luminaires from renowned designers such as Mart Stam, Egon Eiermann, Guenther Leuchtmann and Dieter Rams, including Art Deco and De Stijl.
The unique range of the TECNOLUMEN brand is made up of this combination of characteristic lights with a high recognition value.
The "Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar" was founded in 1919 and was a university for design. Walter Gropius was the initiator and first director. During the Weimar Republic, the leading artists of their time gathered here. Numerous unforgettable works in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, typography, photography, textiles and design were created here. It was precisely because these very different disciplines influenced each other that incomparable, characteristic modern classics were created. However, the credit also goes to the outstanding teachers who gave excellent guidance to their students.
When the right-wing party in Thuringia dismissed all Bauhaus masters in 1924, the Bauhaus relocated to Dessau in 1925-1926. 1928 Hannes Meyer becomes the new director of the facility. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe followed him in 1930. When the National Socialist city council of Dessau closed the Bauhaus again in 1932, the location changed once more - to Berlin. The entire institute was closed in 1933.
Bauhaus products are designed for simplicity and maximum practicality.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld was born in Bremen in 1900. The foundation for his work at the Bauhaus from 1923 was undoubtedly his childhood and training at the Koch and Bergfeld silverware factory in Bremen. In 1924, he passed his journeyman's examination as a silversmith and designed the table lamp with a metal base and metal tube. In 1929 he took up teaching himself, most recently, from 1931 to 1935, at the State Academy of Art in Berlin. After working as artistic director of the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weisswasser/Oberlausitz and serving in the war between 1942 and 1945, he was a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin and founded the Wagenfeld workshop in 1954. He died in 1990.
The Wagenfeld table lamp was designed in 1924 as part of his journeyman's examination. The aim was to design a genuine industrial product. The result, however, is a product made by hand. Thanks to its simplicity and timelessness with a design focussed on the essentials, the light is still popular today in numerous furnishing styles. Also in the trendy industrial style, of course.
TECNOLUMEN reproduces the Wagenfeld table lamp on the basis of genuine original specifications with regard to dimensions and material. The Bauhaus and TECNOLUMEN marks are a certificate of authenticity.
Marianne Brandt was born in Chemnitz in 1893. Her path led her to study painting and sculpture at the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar and to the Bauhaus, where she worked from 1924. Over the next four years, he created numerous designs for appliances and lights that are now considered classics. She worked as head of the metal workshop, as a freelance painter and craftswoman, lectured at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Dresden and devoted herself to painting and small sculptures in Chemnitz from 1955, before moving to Kirchberg/Saxony in 1976, where she spent the last seven years of her life. There has been a street named after her in Chemnitz since 1999.
The Trabant pendant light was designed by Joachim Manz in 2008. The simplicity of its design is offset by the unusual nature of the material: a concrete sphere hangs from a thin wire cable, the underside of which is characterised by a glass lens. The special thing about this modern classic is that the concrete is poured by hand. Blowholes and air pockets, i.e. the different, irregular and unique characteristics of the surface each time, give the surface a "living" appearance. The use of concrete is also a timeless and trendy choice, as this material and its processing can be found in styles such as the industrial style.
Eduard-Wilfrid Buquet's desk lamp was patented in 1927. The most important feature of the patent was the joints. This unique desk accessory is breathtaking not only because of its flexibly adjustable joints, but above all because of its surface, which can be silver-plated or gold-plated. Almost all parts of this lamp are handmade, which increases the value of this unique product that is still in great demand after almost a century. The rather narrow reflector of the luminaire only allows for very small bulb sockets. A light source with a GY6.35 base with an output of up to 50 watts is used here to achieve the appropriate light output for the practical use of this elegant piece.
TECNOLUMEN has the exclusive rights to reissue the famous Wagenfeld luminaire. The company is therefore the world's only manufacturer of the Wagenfeld luminaire, which is also known as the "Bauhaus luminaire" due to its origins. Other re-editions include the Bauhaus teapot by Marianne Brandt and her ceiling light from 1928/29.
"Form follows function". Since its foundation in 1980, the Bremen-based company TECNOLUMEN has followed this Bauhaus credo and has been manufacturing everyday objects with the highest standards of design.
**Each of the reproductions is numbered and the authenticity is confirmed by a stamp.
Art Deco floor lamp based on a French design, created around 1930.
Country of origin: Germany Year of foundation: 1980
Awards: iF Product Design Award | German Design Award
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