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Peill+Putzler
Glashüttenwerk Peill und Sohn was founded in 1903 in Düren, a small town in (West) Germany. Peill und Sohn merged with Putzler (founded in 1869) in 1947 as a glassworks and lighting company, becoming Peill+Putzler Glashüttenwerke.
The company worked with important designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld, William Brown, Helmut Demary, Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner, Horst Tüselmann, Dieter Sieger, Gerhard Beigel, and many others.
In the 1950s, around 1,500 people worked for the company. They also produced glass for other European lighting firms, such as Raak and Philips (The Netherlands) and Massive (Belgium), to name a few.
Peill+Putzler received many design awards, not only for lighting. The company received 86 iF Design awards.
In 1995, production of glass and lighting moved to Slovenia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Only the trading of lamps and glass remained in Düren. In 2005, one year after its 100th anniversary (2004), the company filed for bankruptcy.
In 2008, the name Peill+Putzler was reused for several years, including for the Wagenfeld lighting sold by the German lighting company Paul Neuhaus.
Today the former Peill+Putzler factory, now called Glashütte Düren, has been converted into various businesses and a conference centre.
Peill+Putzler was reactivated in 2022–23 and is now issued by Peill+Putzler Leuchten GmbH & Co. KG in Hemer, Germany, about 150 kilometres from Düren. Organizationally, the company is linked to IS Leuchten via the same address and managing director, Torsten Alberts. A new catalogue has been online since 2025, with several of the old icons, such as the Lido table lamp.
Peill+Putzler Bedside Table Lamps
Materials: White and clear striped crystal hand blown glass globe with a conical top. Metal bar. Bakelite E14 sockets.
Height: 22 cm / 8.66”
Width: ∅ 14 cm / 5.51”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb with an E27 screw base can be used. For this type of table lamp preferable an opaque/white light bulb.
Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: Peill+Putzler, Düren, Germany.
Other versions: These Peill+Putzler bedside table lamps exists in several sizes and colours.
These table lamps are often presented as a lamp from Murano, Italy. Similar lamps were produced on the island. It appears that Venini and some other companies made lamps like these. Several other lamp producers sold similar lamps, often made in China. You find them regularly for sale as a lamp from the Vetri company. Vetri is only the Italian word for glass. Cheap made copies were among others sold by Massive from Belgium. You can find them in many colours.
These two lamps are designed in the style of a design of Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner. He designed several lamps for Peill+Putzler. It is also possible that Peill+Putzler used his designs in other lamps. Many of his light designs received awards.
These lamps are a late production from the 1990s. The electric parts are from that period. In all probability produced in Slovenia, Poland or the Czech Republic. You find these lamps with electric parts that were made from the 1950s until now. Several variations were produced.
Below a pendant lamp with the same stripes he designed in the 1950s. They were produced for a very long time.
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner
Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner was born in Reichenberg, Germany in 1920. He studied at the Staatliche Fachschule für Glasindustrie (State Technical College for the Glass Industry) in Zwiesel for 1934 until 1935. He worked as a freelancer for Peill+Putzler from 1953 until 1958. Several of his designs were also sold by Raak Amsterdam, but were produced by Peill+Putzler. He designed several lamps with the same stripes as these ones.
Later he started to work as an independent for, among others, Erco lighting, also from Germany. Gangkofner also designed lamps in the 1960s for Reininghaus & Co from Lüdenscheid, Germany which won several iFdesign awards. He past away in Munich (München), Germany in 2003.
