I leave you this week with Ingo Maurer‘s timeless classic, the Bulb Table Lamp…designed in 1966, this is Maurer’s first manufactured lamp and the one that launched his company Design M.
Polished chromium-plated metal base, hand-blown crystal glass, crown-silvered 100W bulb
I’d like to share with you two excerpts from a 2009 video interview filmed during the Milan design week and presented by a Japanese web magazine called moonlinx (to see the entire interview, click here)
“I like very much the concept that I leave enough freedom for the consumer or for the onlooker to have their own fantasy and their own interpretation…I don’t like to be a dictator and say, this is it and nothing else…so I use the people to make my designs finished in their minds…their fantasy…” ~ Ingo Maurer
Question from moonlinx ~ “What kind of dreams do you have?”
Answer from Ingo Maurer ~ “A strong dream that I have is that society, all around the world, would become more modest…that progress would mean modesty…modesty also in expression of design…this is a dream, that the people would accept…”
photos from Ingo Maurer