Pair of Table Lamps
Pair of table lamps Mod. Uchiwa
Black lacquered metal base, bamboo, wicker and Japanese rice paper shade
Electrically checked
DESIGNER Ingo Maurer (1932 - 2019)
MANUFACTURER Design M
COUNTRY Germany
DATE 1973
DIMENSIONS H. 78,5 x W. 57 / cm
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ingo Maurer: Making Light, Bauer Helmut, 1992, pg. 65 (Illustration from the same series)
Light reaching for the moon: Exposition présentée au Vitra Design Museum, à Weil am Rhein en 2004,pg 71 (Illustration from the same series)
SPECIAL NOTE
Ingo Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany. After an apprenticeship as typesetter, he studied graphic design in Munich. In 1960, he left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer. In 1963, he moved back to Germany. Founding “Design M”, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs. The company was later renamed to “Ingo Maurer GmbH”. He was nicknamed “poet of light”. He was awarded with the Royal Designers for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts, London, the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Compasso d’Oro.
