Cork Table Lamp by Ingo Maurer for M-Design

The German designer Ingo Maurer (1932-2019), born on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance, trained as a typesetter and then studied graphic design in Munich. In 1963 he founded his own company in Munich, which later became Ingo Maurer GmbH. He became known in 1969 with the lamp Bulb, an oversized light bulb of mouth-blown glass, followed by the free-spanning low-voltage cable system YaYaHo (1984) with halogen lamps. In 1989 came Lucellino, a light bulb with attached goose-feather wings, and in 1994 the pendant lamp Porca Miseria!, composed of shattered porcelain crockery. In 1996, with Bellissima Brutta, he developed one of the very first LED lamps.