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Coat Hangers by Ingo Maurer for M Design, 80's

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Set of 12 beautiful clothes hangers in refined black lacquered plastic. Originals from the early 80s perfectly reflect the style and signature of their creator. Elegant and soft design, they maintain their elegance and modernity over time. The lightness of their design makes them an object of great class and of great effect as details that manifest the refinement and attention of elegant, modern private and professional contexts, attentive to the search for detail. A very nice classy signature that underlines the attention and good taste of those who offer them to the sight of their guests. Ingo Maurer, after working as a typographer between Germany and Switzerland and completing his graphic design studies in Munich in 1958, between 1960 and 1963 he lived between New York and San Francisco working as an independent designer. In 1960 he founded the company Design M, which later became Ingo Maurer GmbH: among the first creations of the house there is the Bulb table lamp (1966). The company will then produce other lamps designed by Maurer himself, several of which will be included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Exhibitions and exhibitions dedicated to him or curated by him have been held in various cities in Europe and beyond: in Paris, St. Petersburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Cologne, New York, Barcelona and Frankfurt. Some of his installations found a place in the Westfriedhof and Münchner Freiheit stations of the Munich underground. For the importance of his research on design world, Maurer achieved several international awards: among them the Design Award from the city of Munich (1999), the Primavera del Disseny in Barcelona (2001), and the Georg Award Jensen in Copenhagen in 2003. In 2005 he was appointed Royal Designer of Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in London, while a year later he was awarded an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art. In 2011 he was awarded the Compasso Gold Association for Industrial Design. On 21 October 2019 he died at the age of 87. Lately he lived and worked in Munich.

Creator:

Ingo Maurer (Designer),M Design (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 10.63 in (27 cm)Width: 17.33 in (44 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 12

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Plastic

Place of Origin:

Germany

Period:

Late 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1980s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Padova, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU6345230819462

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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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