ZETTEL’Z SERIES DESIGN BY INGO MAURER
ZETTELITE DESIGN BY
INGO MAURER 1997
I am sure that many
people go around with ideas for a long long time. Some will be realized,
others just vanish. Zettelite is such an idea, which was on my mind for almost
twenty years. The word ‘Zettel’ in German means scrap of paper. Is
it necessary to explain the name I gave, why I baptized it Zettelite?
Paper has always
been my favourite material in combination with light, but for a long time
paper was ‘out’. My early paper lamps were no great success, when I
showed them in the Seventies. Nowadays, they are. Think of Willydilly,
Lampampe, Floatation, Knitterling etc. Yes, paper was out for a long time
and since quite a few years it is back on the market but most of these
products are very poorly done. Noguchi is still the best.
Light passing
through paper is the idea behind Zettelite, in combination with poems, messages – maybe to the beloved one -,sketches, children’s
drawings, sexy pictures, mysterious riddles, recipes or maybe just
‘Forgive me, darling, for my bad behaviour’, personal documents. Think of
a beautiful calligraphy, in Japanese, Arab or Chinese. Zettelite is a
product, clear in its concept and once again free for the user to make
of it what he wants, but always creating a pleasant light, soft for the
eyes. And a mild light makes people always better looking. A strong,
hidden light source shoots the light for instance on a table and creates a
very pleasant dining atmosphere.
Extremely easy to
assemble, very economically packed and a ‘cash-and-carry’ item, with a
flair of arte povera, and maybe a slight feeling of Dada. The judge is you!
The scraps of paper
move with the slightest wind, but altered strong paper clips keep them
from falling and little red plastic tips prevent injuries. A kind of Yin
and Yang solution, Yin for the softness and the female, and Yang for the
strength and the male. Is it really like that, or is it just the other way
around?
* name changed to
Zettel’z 5 / Zettel’z 6 later
Ingo Maurer
www.ingo-maurer.com
You may reach to see Ingo Maurer's another project of Kruisheren Hotel Maastricht to click below link.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/12/ingo-maurer-kruisherenhotel-maastricht.html
BANGBOOM! ZETTEL’Z DESIGN BY INGO MAURER
Japanese paper, stainless steel, heat-resitant satin-frosted glass. 80 printed paper sheets DIN A5. Drawings by Thilo Rothacker. 230/125 volts, max. 250 watts, E27, max. 75 watts PAR 30 Halogen 30°, E27. Complete with bulbs. BangBoom! Zettel‘z is a new, limited edition of Zettel‘z 5.
ZETTEL’Z 5 DESIGN BY INGO MAURER
Stainless steel, heat-resistant satin-frosted glass, Japanese
paper. Halogen Halolux ceram clear, 230/ 125 volts, max. 250 watts, socket
E27 (top), halogen PAR 30, max. 75 watts, 30°, socket E27 (bottom), canopy
diameter 11 cm. Cable length 330 cm. 31 printed and 49 blank paper sheets
DIN A5. Complete with bulbs. Replacement set of 80 blank paper sheets
available.
http://www.ingo-maurer.com/en/products/zettelz-5
ZETTEL’Z VIVA L’ITALIA DESIGN BY INGO MAURER
Gestaltung: Ingo Maurer undTeam 2011 Japanese paper, stainless
steel, heat-resistant satin-frosted glass. 80 printed paper sheets DIN A5.
230/125 volts, max. 250 watts, E27 and max. 75 watts PAR 30 Halogen 30°, E27.
Cable length 330 cm. Complete with bulbs. Zettel‘z Viva l'Italia is a new, limited edition of
Zettel‘z 5.
http://www.ingo-maurer.com/en/products/zettelz-viva-litalia
ZETTEL’Z 6 DESIGN BY INGO MAURER 1998
Stainless steel, heat-resistant satin-frosted glass, Japanese paper.
Halogen Halolux ceram clear, 230/125 volts, max. 250 watts, socket E27,
canopy diameter 11 cm. Cable length 200 cm. 40 printed and 40 blank paper
sheets DIN A6. Complete with bulb. Replacement set of 80 blank paper
sheets available.
http://www.ingo-maurer.com/en/products/zettelz-6
‘’ The quality of light
is more important to me than its form. ‘’
Ingo Maurer
INGO MAURER
Born in 1932 on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance, Germany,
Ingo Maurer trained as a typographer and subsequently studied graphic
design in Switzerland and in Munich. In 1960 he moved to the USA, where he
worked as a designer for various clients including IBM. In 1966, having
returned to Germany three years previously, he set up his own company,
Design M, in Munich, to make and market his own designs, the first of
which was the celebrated "Bulb", a Pop Art lamp within a lamp.
In the 1960s and 1970s Maurer made a name for himself with unusual
designs and appearances at trade fairs. "Bulb" won a place in
the MoMA design collection as early as 1969. The naked light bulb is a
continually recurring motif: in homage to its inventor, Thomas Alva
Edison, Maurer used the name Edison in several of his own products. His
first commercial success came with the series of fan lamps, incorporating
traditional Japanese fan designs, which he started to produce in the early
1970s, after visiting Japan several times to meet the fan-makers and
watch them at work. In 1977 Maurer also began to use thin Japanese paper -
a material which has continued to intrigue him and still features prominently
in his collection. At the 1984 Euroluce fair in Milan, Maurer presented
the pioneering low-voltage lighting system YaYaHo. The system, which had
taken some two years to develop, consisted of low-voltage cables stretched
across a room, with a variety of movable halogen elements which could be
positioned according to the user's preferences. At that time, the interior
use of halogen bulbs, which made safe lighting with exposed cables
possible, was almost unheard-of. YaYaHo was rapturously received by
the interior design industry, especially in Italy and France, and has
since had countless imitators.
In 1989 the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in
Jouy-en-Josas near Paris staged the exhibition Ingo Maurer: Lumière Hasard
Réflexion, which gave the designer his first opportunity to create lighting
installations of a non-commercial nature. In the same year he also had a
retrospective in the city then known as Leningrad. Since then, his designs -
whether one-off commissions or mass-produced lamps from his ordinary collection
- have been shown all over the world in many exhibitions, including the one-man
shows Ingo Maurer: Working with Light in
the Villa Stuck in Munich (1992) and Licht licht at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
(1993).
In 2002 the Vitra Design Museum, in cooperation with Maurer,
organised the travelling exhibition Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon, which was shown
in several cities in Europe and Japan. Another important exhibition of
Maurer's work was Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer, at the Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum in New York. Recently, the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin has shown a
representative selection of his works.
Maurer's best-known designs include "One From The Heart"
(1989), incorporating a red plastic heart; the winged light bulb
"Lucellino" (1992) and the various other members of its
feathered family; and "Porca Miseria" (1994), a pendant made
of broken crockery. Since the mid-1990s Maurer has increasingly been
exploiting the unique aesthetic effects of LEDs and technical components
such as printed circuit boards. An example of this is
"Einstein", a large pendant which combines the image of the
light bulb with green circuit boards and multicoloured LEDs.
In 1990, Maurer began to devote a significant part of his energies
to planning installations and lighting systems for a wide range of public
and private clients, in addition to making lamps for the collection of his
firm, now known as Ingo Maurer GmbH. Some examples of these special
commissions are the giant aluminium lampshades for the Westfriedhof
underground station in Munich (1998); an installation for a show by the
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake (1999); the light sculptures for
the interior of the Atomium in Brussels; and a large-format light object for the Rockhal in Luxembourg (2007) and the lighting and
colour design for another subway station in Munich, Münchner
Freiheit. Maurer lives in Munich, where his firm, which now employs over
60 people, also is located. In 2008, he opened a 700 sqm showroom at 47
Kaiserstrasse, Munich in a former production and storage hall, which is in
the same building as his office and studio space. In 2010 Ingo Maurer
received the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany.
