Germany - Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900-1990)
Today, he is still considered to have been a designer at
heart. The tablelamp he designed in the mid-1920s together with Karl J. Jucker
in the Bauhaus with a glass base and a white lampshade of opal glass made
him famous.
It was as simple as a street lamp and still a symbol of early functionalism.
When Wagenfeld said that the best characteristic of objects was their "unpretentiousness",
he meant by this useful, low-price and yet appealing everyday objects.
Thus the silversmith created many consumer durables out of glass
and metal: such as his legendary cube-shaped china (1938) and other press
glass designs for Jena Glas (Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke) or his work for
WMF, Rosenthal and Braun.
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The famous cube-shaped china, here one model with jugs
and storage jars, designed in 1938 by Wilhelm Wagenfeld for the Lausitz Glassworks.
© Quittenbaum München, Modernes Design
- Kunsthandwerk nach 1945, 9th June 01'
Conical, funnel-shaped and spindle-shaped inner walls
for Wagenfeld vases designed for WMF.
© Quittenbaum München, Modernes Design
- Kunsthandwerk nach 1945, 20th May 00'
