Here we have a heavy-duty task lamp providing a "missing link" in 20th-century lighting history. While the cast iron base bears the BUR hallmark of the legendary Bünte & Remmler (Frankfurt)—a firm famous for its Bauhaus collaborations with Christian Dell—the finishing hardware carries the IKA (Installationen, Kabel, Apparate) mark of the Soviet-occupied East German industrial collective. A lot of words to say a sick, bruising design with all the scars to prove it.
Produced in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this lamp represents the era when the high-design molds of the pre-war Bauhaus period were nationalized by the GDR. It is a brutalist, functionalist masterwork that traded the polished chrome of the West for the rugged, textured patina of the Eastern Bloc.
The brutalist accent light comes out of a German collector’s estate. I believe the light was produced in the late 1940s.
The Bauhaus style lamp measures 18" inches tall, 12” deep, and 5” wide. The lamp has the new period appropriate wiring with an American adapter. There is cool patina throughout the chrome surface, including small scrapes, a few patches of metal discolorations, and a very small dent on the shade. The lightbulb is not included. Please see pics as they are part of the description.
I ship FedEx to street addresses in the continental USA only (no PO Boxes). Free shipping on the historically cool accent light.
Nothing like a Bauhaus masterpiece to explode the design of your room.
