One for the Recession Wall Lamp by Ingo Maurer 1985

Rare Ingo Maurer 1985 wall lamp one for the Recession in great vintage condition as can be seen in the images.
The lamp will be shipped insured overseas. Cost of transport to the US is Euro 85.

Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany,and was the son of a fisherman and grew up there with four siblings. After an apprenticeship as typesetter, he studied graphic design in Munich.In 1960 Maurer left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer, including for IBM.In 1963, he moved back to Germany, founding Design M, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs.The company was later renamed to “Ingo Maurer GmbH”.One of his first designs, the Bulb (1969), was included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1969.[3]

In 1984 he presented the low-voltage wire system YaYaHo, consisting of two horizontally fixed metal ropes and a series of adjustable lighting elements with halogen bulbs;it became an instant success. Maurer was asked to create special YaYaHo installations for the exhibition “Lumires je pense vous” (“Lights I think of you”) at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome, and the Institut Francais d’Architecture in Paris.

In 1989 Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art) in Jouy-en-Josas near Paris organized the exhibition “Ingo Maurer: Lumire Hasard Rflexion” (Ingo Maurer: Light Chance Reflection). For this exhibition, Maurer created lighting objects and installations that were not meant for serial production for the first time.

Since 1989, his design and objects have been presented in a series of exhibitions, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1993). In 2002 the Vitra Design Museum organized Ingo Maurer Light Reaching for the Moon, a travelling exhibition with several shows in Europe and in Japan. In 2007 the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York presented the exhibition Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer.