Tecnolumen

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TECNOLUMEN GmbH & Co KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1980
Seat Bremen
management Carsten Hotzan, Walter Schnepel
Number of employees about 40
sales 2.2 million EUR (2016)
Branch Lights , design
Website www.tecnolumen.de

Tecnolumen is a lighting manufacturer that specializes in designer lights, especially those from the Bauhaus . The Bremen manufactory is the only licensed manufacturer of Wagenfeld lamps worldwide . Tecnoline is a sister company of the GmbH and manufactures fittings, door handles and switches.

Companies

Original manufacturer

In 1979, the company's founder, Walter Schnepel, had received permission from Wilhelm Wagenfeld to relaunch the table lamp , which is also known as the Bauhaus lamp .

Tecnolumen produces four different versions of this lamp - all original Wagenfeld designs.
Again and again plagiarism on. The company countered this product piracy at times with exchange campaigns (e.g. “No Fake” campaign).

Wilhelm Wagenfeld lamp

The original Wagenfeld lamp is manufactured 1: 1 according to plans by the Bauhaus designer from 1924. In the re-edition published by Tecnolumen in 1980, only minimal changes were made to the original design in coordination with Wilhelm Wagenfeld due to technical necessities: a reduction in the radius of the base, a reduction in the thickness of the plate and a minimal increase in the glass dome.

The fact that the Wilhelm Wagenfeld lamp is a design icon is shown, among other things, by the fact that it can be found in many museums around the world - since 1986, for example, in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
A separate exhibition was dedicated to her in Bremen: from March 12th to July 10th 2016, the New Museum Weserburg showed the exhibition Lamp! .

Designer

In addition to Wilhelm Wagenfeld, lights are made by other Bauhaus students. Including:

Other contemporary designers who, like the Bauhaus artists, rely on the principle of form follows function , complete the program. Two of the best known are:

literature

  • Magdalene Droste: The Bauhaus lamp by Carl Jacob Jucker and Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2002, ISBN 9783764368319 .
  • Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Feierabend: Bauhaus. hf ullmann publishing, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3833143472 .
  • Bernd Polster: Bauhaus Design - The products of the new objectivity. Dumont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 9783832191672 .
  • Klaus Weber: The metal workshop at the Bauhaus. Kupfergraben, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3891814054 .
  • Beate Manske and Gudrun Scholz: in hand every day - industrial forms by Wilhelm Wagenfeld from 6 decades. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1987, ISBN 3922516556 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consolidated annual financial statements for 2016 from January 6, 2017, accessed via the E-Bundesanzeiger
  2. ↑ nordwestradio (2016): 2 to 1 - Walter Schnepel, entrepreneur and art collector ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  3. ^ Page of the manufacturer: Tecnoline , accessed on July 7, 2017
  4. ↑ radiobremen (2016): Bremen design icon - nine facts about the famous Wagenfeld lamp ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  5. ↑ Ikarus Design Blog (2016): Beware of falsification ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.ikarus.de
  6. ↑ Schöner Wohnen (2015): Tecnolumen exchanges fake ones for real Wagenfeld lights
  7. ↑ Walter Schnepel: TL1. In: A magazine from Tecnolumen. Tecnolumen / Frank Meierdiercks, Bremen, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 .