Table lamp Wagenfeld | Original Bauhaus model

The design classic was personally created in 1924 by Wilhelm Wagenfeld.

As his first model, the then 24-year-old Wagenfeld, who had just been taken on as a journeyman at the Bauhaus workshop in Weimar, made this lamp following a task set by Moholy-Nagy. As Wagenfeld said, the Bauhaus designs were meant to be industrial products and looked that way too. In reality, however, they were made on a craft basis. And this lamp is now made exactly according to the original specifications, in size and material.

The reissue began at Tecnolumen in 1979, who consciously followed Wagenfeld’s much simplified design. Naturally, they took on both versions of the lamp, which still fit into any setting and are merely a matter of taste as to which lamp base model one chooses. While the designer’s first draft provided for a nickel-plated base, the glass base was also designed in the same year and still appeals to a wide audience today.