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Carbon Fiber ‘Flying Disc’ Suspension Lamp for Ingo Maurer

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Carbon fiber ‘Flying Disc’ suspension lamp for Ingo Maurer This extremely lightweight yet sizable creation comes to us from the brilliant imagination of Ingo Maurer, one of the most celebrated German lighting icons since 1966. With creativity and technical prowess, Maurer’s lamps have been explicitly designed to “stimulate the imagination and excite the emotions.” Today his Munich workshop continues to craft incomparable creations true to the one of a kind spirit of the firm’s founder. Attached by 3 nearly invisible metal wires, the ‘Flying Disc’ appears to hover like a UFO below the ceiling and is intended to be installed at an angle to add dynamics to the space and create indirect lighting. The thin white diffuser disc is brilliantly illuminated by a ring of high-quality LEDs affixed to the long and slender black rod that is suspended through the disc's center. The length of the rod and the angle of the ring are adjustable, making it possible to light up the diffuser disc asymmetrically. All three parts–the disc, the rod and the ring–visually merge to form a most intriguing graphical object. The Flying Disc is based on the floor lamp Ringelpiez, which Ingo Maurer first presented at light+building, Frankfurt in March 2016. Two prototypes of the suspended object were presented in Milan at San Paolo Converso, a former church which is now used for exhibitions. Five Flying Disc were installed at Hotel Unique São Paulo in 2016. Price is per item. Available to order in limited quantities. In stock lead time 8-10 weeks, out of stock lead time can add 8 weeks or longer. Please note that lead times and availability can change without notice. Please contact us for current lead times prior to placing time-sensitive orders. Executed in fiberglass, carbon fiber, metal, and plastic, ‘Flying Disc’ is illuminated via the integrated 25W, EEC G energy class LEDs providing a maximum brightness of 3520 lumens with a color temperature of 2700K and CRI >95. Dimmable according to switch (switch not included). Made to order. All sales are final.

Creator:

Ingo Maurer (Maker, Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 67.3 in (170.95 cm)Diameter: 74.8 in (190 cm)

Power Source:

Hardwired

Voltage:

110-150v

Lampshade:

Included

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Carbon Fiber,Fiberglass,Metal,Plastic

Place of Origin:

Germany

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

Contemporary

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

8-9 weeks

Condition:

Seller Location:

Glendale, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: M49721stDibs: LU1447237763762

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Ingo Maurer

German designer Ingo Maurer (1932–2019) was known as a “poet of light” for how he artfully created lamps that married form and function, from bulbs that soared on goose-feather wings to chandeliers that suspended bursts of shattered tableware like a slow-motion explosion. One of his first lamps, a 1966 design that was merely called Bulb, nested a lightbulb inside a larger glass lightbulb shape, drawing on his connection to German art traditions of reductive forms as well as Pop art and the playful aesthetics of 1960s pop culture. The success of Bulb — its fans included American design icon Charles Eames — led to the founding of his own company to produce this provocative fixture as well as other fantastic lighting designs.

Born on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance in southern Germany, Maurer apprenticed at a newspaper before moving to the United States in 1960. In New York and California, Maurer initially worked as a graphic designer for IBM and elsewhere before returning to Germany with his then-wife, designer Dorothee Becker, in 1963. The experience that Maurer gained in typography and bold forms was regularly expressed in the lamps crafted by his company, which was called Design M before the name was changed to Ingo Maurer GmbH. The lighting manufacturer is still based in Munich.

Some of Maurer’s pieces were minimal, such as a ceramic table lamp in 1996 he called Broken Egg, which radiated light from a fissure in an oblong shape, while others were monumental, such as the designer’s last completed installation — a colossal chandelier composed of over 3,000 silver-plated leaves — in Munich’s Residenztheater. Maurer was always at the forefront of lighting innovations, exploring holograms, LEDs and OLEDs in his projects. Through his company, the venturesome Maurer also promoted inventive new designers, including Moritz Waldemeyer, whose My New Flame (2012) imagined a futuristic candle with LEDs.

Ingo Maurer GmbH continues to produce the late designer’s distinctive table lamps, chandeliers and other fixtures, including the imaginative Bulb that started it all.

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