Product description
Brass.
18 7/8 in. (48 cm) high, 6 3/8 in. (16.1 cm) diameter
Manufactured by Rondella Beleuchtungskörperfabrik GmbH, Germany.
Literature:
Friedericke Mehlau-Wiebking, Arthur Rüegg and Ruggero Tropeano, eds., Schweizer Typenmöbel 1925-1935: Siegfried Giedeon und die Wohnbedarf AG, Zurich, 1989, p. 177 for similar base; Klaus Weber, Die Metallwerstatt Am Bauhaus, exh. cat., Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 1992, pp. 201, fig. 155 and 205, figs. 163 a and b for similar versions; Torsten Bröhan and Thomas Berg, Avantgarde Design, 1880-1930, Cologne, 1994, p. 107 for the same pivot mechanism