Bakelite Table Lamps, circa 1940s

Typ 113 Peitsche Table Lamp By Curt Fischer For Midgard Circa 1940s - Curved adjustable arm with its original grey paint - Angled steel shade in original brown paint - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - Designed by Curt Fischer - Typ 113 the "Peitsche" (whip) - German ~ 1940s - 75cm tall x 16cm wide Curt Fischer/Midgard Midgard was founded in 1919 in Auma / Thuringia by the engineer Curt Fischer. Originally for internal needs of his machine factory IWA Ronneberger & Fischer (industrial plant Auma), Curt Fischer developed scissors lamps and articulated lamps. This is why he is considered the inventor of the "tractable light". The in these days widespread ceiling-mounted pendulous lampshades provided only static light from above. As such, the entrepreneur regarded them as rather inflexible. This type of lightning caused the workers to cast shadow over their workpieces themselves. Curt Fischer sketched and manufactured first prototypes of articulated lamps by passing the live cable through tubes and developing articulations between the tubes. He perfected the system, developed many multi-armed desk lamps, work lamps and wall lamps. Within few years he turned to be a luminaire manufacturer which he called Midgard (as the Norse Mythology called the bright Middle Earth inhabited by people). Early on his designs were recognised and valued by Walter Gropius, among others, and hence used at the Bauhaus. Gropius supported Fischer's developments. Their original correspondence has been preserved until the present day. The post-war period Curt Fischer passes away in 1956. His son Wolfgang takes over management in the spirit of his father's. Up until in the late 60s Midgard produced their meanwhile three luminaire ranges: - the historic Steering Lamps, which were used among others at the Bauhaus - the robust and modular as well as maintenance-free Machine Lamp...

Table lamp by Koranda Circa 1930s - Original Cream paint - On/Off switch on the base - Adjustable steel shade - Glass dome top - Nickel arm with wooden handle - By Koranda, V...

Kandem model 573 table lamp Circa 1920s - Pressed steel shade - "Kandem" branding on the shade - Black arm - Original On/Off toggle switch on the shade - Cast iron base - Tak...

Table Lamp By E. Kloepfel & Sohn Circa 1930s - S shaped aluminium arm - Black aluminium shade - Concrete base - On/Off switch on the shade - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - By E. Kloepfe...

Model 752 table lamp by Kandem Circa 1930s. - Original brown paint - Cast iron foot with curved steel arm - Adjustable shade and arm - Original bakelite On/Off toggle switch -...

Model 6556 table lamps by Kaiser Idell Circa 1930s. - Steel shade with relief Kaiser Idell branding - On/Off switch on the base - Takes E27 fitting bulbs - Adjustable arm and s...

Extra large architectural Desk lamp attributed to Christian Dell white enameled chrome top and swivel arm.

A set of two bakelite table lamps in the Bauhaus style, produced in Czechoslovakia in the 1940s. Asymmetrical form, adjustable angle of the lampshade. The lamps have a visible model...

A set of two bakelite table lamps in the Bauhaus style, produced in Czechoslovakia in the 1940s. Asymmetrical form, adjustable angle of the lampshade. The lamps have a visible model...

Adjustable bakelite table lamp, Germany, around 1940s. Blackened. Nickel plated.

This antique goose neck industrial desk lamp was designed by Eric Kirkman Cole, for the E.K. Cole Co. in England in the 1930s. It was manufactured in...

Beautiful table lamps attributable to Christian Dell. Adjustable in chromed steel. Signs of time as seen in photos.