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When it comes to the applied skill of industrial design, perhaps no other name ,shouts louder than that of Wagenfeld . Recognized to be the most unbeaten prodigy of the Staatliches Bauhaus, the German industrial designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld created some of the most famed regard as designs of the 20th century. But none of his designs would tell to be as timeless as the Wagenfeld Lampe. Usually known as the “Bauhaus lamp”, theWagenfeld Lampe exhibits the modernist ideas which the Bauhaus stands for and lingers an admired industrial design to this day.

Made up of a disc-shaped base, a tube-shaped stand and a semi-spherical glass lampshade, the Wagenfeld Lampe was designed by Wagenfeld in partnership with Karl J. Jucker in 1924 during their journeyman years at the Bauhaus. As the tale goes, the lamp’s design was completed by Wagenfeld as the solution to an assignment given to him by his teacher, the Bauhaus administrator Lazlo-Moholy Nagy.

Two types of the Wagenfeld Lamp currently exist. In the first type, the base and stand are completed from industrial class steel coated with nickel. Copy of the Lampe were also done with chrome-plated steel, though nickel-plated lamps are more required after and can certainly be recognized by the yellowish glaze of the nickel gives off over time. But the second type, the stand and base are completed from thick clear glass. The inner core of the glass stand also has a nickel-plated tube which the electrical feed line is put up. The glass type of Wagenfeld Lampe is generally more expensive that its steel type, as it is more hard to manufacture.

At present, the Technolumen company of Bremen, Germany is the official producer of Wagenfeld Lampe reproductions. Technolumen obtained the rights to make the Lampe from Wagenfeld in the early 1980s, and it now remains as one of its leading products. But, reproductions of Wagenfeld’s design by other makers have also attained on the market.