A common misjudgment about industrial works is that it only applies to machines and equipments used in factories. Now while this bears a bit of reality, industrial design can also be used to basic everyday objects as well. One example industrial which can easily balance into any home is the Wagenfeld Lampe.

As an applied art, industrial design aims to be aesthetically attractive to the eye while being commercially viable at the same time. Both these attributes can be attained in the Wagenfeld Lampe. Named] after its inventor, the simple, geometric glass and metal table lamp. The lamp is divided into three essential parts: the flat circular foot, a tube-like stand, and a globular semi-opacous glass lampshade. In addition the lamp also features a distinctive pull cord spout style as well as a fabric pull cord with a metal ball fixed on one end.

To date the Wagenfeld Lampe is produced in two versions. In the first type, the lamp’s foundation and stand are completed from vivid plate glass. The stand also has a steel inner core, which houses the electrical feed line and gives the lamp a distictive “X-ray look”. In the second type, though, both the base and stand is finished from nickel-plated steel. Steel type of Wagenfeld Lampe are generally less luxurous than their glass counterparts, as they are less tedious to produce. What’s more, the steel Lampe is especially attained after for the elegant yellowish patina the nickel plating displays over time.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld made the Wagenfeld Lampe with Karl Jacob Jucker in 1924 during their period as journeymen at the Bauhaus school in Germany. The lamp was said to have been completed as the answer to an assignment handed to Wagenfeld by his professor, the Hungarian artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Because of this, the Wagenfeld Lampe is also sometimes labeled to as the “Bauhaus Lamp”.