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Glashütte Düren website (archived)
iF-Design awards for Peill+Putzler
Koninklijke Philips N.V. website
Murano Caged Glass – Google images
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1960s Caged Glass Copper Pendant Lamps – Van Doorn Catalogue Picture
Many thanks to Marjan from Vintage Drachten for the pictures of the other lamps.
Many thanks to Hans from Ztijl Design for the Van Doorn catalogue picture.
Burned Copper & Glass Pendant Lamps
Materials: Round conical lampshades. Made of burned copper and amber-cognac coloured glass. Black painted aluminium lid on top of the lampshade. Bakelite E27 socket.
Cord Length: 80 cm / 31.49’’
Height: 21 cm / 8.26”
Width: ∅ 16 cm / 6.29”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 75 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preffered.
Period: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer:Peill+Putzler, Düren, Germany.
Other versions: Innumerable versions were made of these burned copper & glass pendant lamps.
Nanny Still
These lamps in all forms and sizes are always attributed as Raak Amsterdam lamps, produced in the Netherlands and designed by Nanny Still-Mackinney. Unfortunately there is absolutely no proof for it. On the contrary, these lamps never appear in a catalog published by Raak, not even a lamp in this style. Also, you will never find a lamp with a Raak label on it. When you do a search for them, numerous models appear. All Raak and Nanny Still… Strange indeed.
Koninklijke Philips N.V. produced many lamps like this, as you can see below in catalogues from 1967 and 1968.
The Austrian company Rupert Nikoll also sold several lamps in this style. Emil Stejnar was their most well known designer.
These lamps here on display are made by Peill+Putzler. The hook to hang the lamp on the ceiling (picture below) is exclusively used by the company for many lights they produced. Later versions of this hook have the name Peill+Putzler written on it.
All these lamps, also those by Philips, were made by Peill+Putzler. Peill+Putzler produced glass for many lamp producers in the world at that time. Other companies that sold these type of lamps are, among others: Herda and Van Doorn, The Netherlands, Massive Lighting, Belgium, Arnold Wiigs Fabrikker, Norway and several others.
The technique used is invented in Murano, Italy. They call it caged glass. The glass is blown inside the copper while the copper is heated. It’s impossible to remove the glass afterwards.
Peill+Putzler
Glashüttenwerk Peill und Sohn was founded in 1903 in Düren, Germany. In 1947, after the Second World War, the company merged with Putzler, whose origins go back to 1869, and continued under the name Peill+Putzler Glashüttenwerke. Over the following decades, Peill+Putzler developed into one of Germany’s best-known producers of glass and lighting. In its peak years, the company employed up to 1,500 people and was one of the largest employers in Düren.
The company worked with important designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, Helmut Demary, Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner, Horst Tüselmann, Dieter Sieger and others. Peill+Putzler became especially known for its high-quality glass production and for a wide range of modern lighting designs, many of which received iF Design Awards. Peill+Putzler received many design awards, not only for its lighting designs. Over the years, the company won 86 iF Design Awards.
Peill+Putzler also supplied glass components to other European lighting companies, including Raak, Philips, Müller & Zimmer and Van Doorn in the Netherlands, and Massive in Belgium. These lamps often combined Peill+Putzler glass with electrical parts made or specified by the companies under whose names they were sold.
In the mid-1990s, production was gradually moved from Düren to Slovenia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Only the trading of lamps and glass remained in Düren. Although the company was able to celebrate its 100th anniversary, insolvency proceedings followed in 2005.
For a number of years after that, the Peill+Putzler name continued to be used, including for Wagenfeld lighting marketed by the German company Paul Neuhaus. The former factory site in Düren, now known as Glashütte Düren, has since been converted into a multifunctional complex with various businesses and event spaces.
The Peill+Putzler name was revived again in recent years and is now used by Peill+Putzler Leuchten GmbH & Co. KG in Hemer, Germany. A new catalogue has been online since 2025, including reissues of some of the company’s best-known models, such as the Lido table lamp.
Burned Copper & Glass Pendant Lamps – Company Labels & Logos
