Staff Aluminium Pendant Lamp 5407

Materials: Brown-green-metallic painted aluminium mushroom lampshade, painted white inside. Black plastic top. Black plastic canopy. Porcelain E27 socket.

Cord Length: 100 cm / 39.37’’

Height: 27 cm / 10.62”

Width: ∅ 41 cm / 16.14”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 150 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerke GMBH, Lemgo, Germany.

Other versions: This Staff aluminium pendant lamp 5407 exists in several colours, sizes and forms.

Model numbers: 5407/09. Later it became 510022/23/540900.
Model number of the other lamps you see below: 5483, 5484, 5405.

Staff 

Staff Leuchten – Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerk (lighting plant) – was established by Alfred Staff and Otto Schwarz in Lemgo, (West) Germany in 1945.

Their business started as a shop for consumer goods in wood and metal as well as pesticide for controlling the Colorado potato beetle, a huge problem at that time.

Within a year they the company expanded with 15 employees and they produced the first wrought iron luminaires. Over the next three decades, Staff was to develop into a world leader in design excellence, receiving over 200 awards for their achievements.

Staff also collaborated with the Italian company Stilnovo. They published a joint catalogue in the 1970s. The Dutch Raak and the Danish Lyfa sold several lamps in the 60s and 70s. Several other companies did.

In 1994 Zumtobel bought the company.