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Ingo Maurer

Rigor and compositional freedom

After completing the graphic studies in Munich in 1958, between 1960 and 1963 he lived between New York and San Francisco working as an independent designer. In 1960 he founded the company Design M, then became Ingo Maurer GmbH: Among the first creations of the house there is the Bulb table lamp (1966), in polished chromed metal and blown crystal. Following the company will produce other lamps designed by the same Maurer, several of which are included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York: Between them Gulp (1969), Light Structure (1970), Little Black Nothing and the low voltage system Yayaho (1988), Los Minimalos Dos, Lucellino Wall, Wo bist Du, Edison, Zettel'z (1999), Campari Light (2002) and Porca Miseria! (2003). Exhibitions and performances dedicated to him or cared for have been held in different cities around the world. Due to the importance of his research on lighting fixtures, he has received several international awards: among them the Design prize by the City of Munich (1999), the spring of Disseny in Barcelona (2001), and the Georg prize Jensen in Copenhagen in 2003. In 2005 he was named Royal Designer of Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in London, and a year later he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Royal College of Art. In 2011, he was awarded the Golden Compass from Association for industrial Design.