Light and Lamps: Classic Items

A New Steel and Glass Era 

          When we select an item we look for the roots and nature of the thing.  In this post we will speak about architecture, light and lamps.  A plain utilitarian gas station became a piece of art thanks to an elegant design, clearly touched by illumination and neon bulbs, somewhere in Buenos Aires, in 1951. In spite of colour photography, the impact of black and white images is still stunning. In fact, sometimes we face an uncontrolled excess of colours. 

          The extraordinary buildings and interiors by Hans Poelzig (1869-1936), were produced at a time where visions and dreams of German expressionist artists seemed limitless, and not only painters or architects but filmmakers, cinematographers and directors like Fritz Lang, to mention only one -we will also explore classic cinema-. Those dreams were interrupted by geo-politics, but their inspiration is as strong as ever. The next photo shows the lobby of the famous Großes Schauspielhaus, theatre in Berlin designed by Poelzig in 1924.

          The following, beautiful lamp was designed even before,  in 1923 (more than hundred years ago) at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, by Wilhelm Wagenfeld and K. J. Jucker. It seems to defy imagination and time.  It has three elements, a base, a column and a head, and it is clearly anthropomorphic but in some abstract way. The link with Nature is tacit, not figurative.  Materiality has been stressed to the limit. Glass meets and dialogues with steel.

          We invite you to see some of our colourful lamps, all inspired in classic designs from what we call today mid-Century, but in reality dates back to the 20's, mostly in Germany, but also in the US and particularly Italy, the source of Futurism. 

          We hope you enjoy our approach and visit our shop, that continuously expands to serve your needs and, most important, fulfil your dreams.

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