The Stylish Industrial Design For Everybody’s Home : The Wagenfeld Lampe
February 14, 2010
A usual misjudgment about industrial design is that it only applies to machines and equipments used in factories. Now while this bears a bit of reality, industrial design can also be utilized to basic everyday objects as well. One example industrial which can easily blend into any home is the Wagenfeld Lampe.
As an applied style, industrial design targets to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye while being commercially viable at the same time. Both these attributes can be seen in the Wagenfeld Lampe. {Termed|Named] after its designer, the well known German designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld, the Wagenfeld Lampe is a plain, geometric glass and metal table lamp. The lamp is divided into three basic parts: the flat circular base, a tube-like stand, and a globular semi-opaque glass lampshade. In addition the lamp also features a unique pull cord spout design as well as a fabric pull cord with a metal ball fixed on one end.
To date the Wagenfeld Lampe is manufactured in two versions. In the first version, the lamp’s base and stand are made from clear plate glass. The stand also has a steel inner core, which houses the electrical feed line and gives the lamp a unique “X-ray look”. In the second version, however, both the base and stand is finished from nickel-plated steel. Steel type of Wagenfeld Lampe are generally less expensive than their glass counterparts, as they are less tedious to make. What’s more, the steel Lampe is especially attained after for the attractive yellowish patina the nickel plating displays over time.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld designed the Wagenfeld Lampe with Karl Jacob Jucker in 1924 during their period as journeymen at the Bauhaus school in Germany. The lamp was said to have been made as the answer to an assignment handed to Wagenfeld by his teacher, the Hungarian artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Because of this, the Wagenfeld Lampe is also sometimes referred to as the “Bauhaus Lamp”.
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