Key facts

Product:
Floor lamp
Manufacturer:
Dorotheum
Architonic ID:
4101684
Country:
Austria
Category:
Lighting

Product description

A rare floor lamp, the design attributed to Karl Trabert, Frankfurt, around 1928, manufactured around 1928 by G. Schanzenbach & Co. GmbH, an illumination factory in Frankfurt (SCHACO), nickel plated metal, aluminium, plexiglass, cast glass, with Diffuna lampshade (a material developed by Schanzenbach made of specially processed paper, height 180 cm, diametre of lampshade 30 cm, diametre of glass stand 33 cm.
In very good original condition. Original shade, the wiring and plug replaced.
Literature: Tendenzen der zwanziger Jahre, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1977, page 255 (the lamp reproduced without original shade) - Schanzenbach brochure, around 1934 (on the material of the lampshade) - Christie's/London, Modernism, 17 March 1999, lot 66.