DORIA Round Glass Tubes Chandelier
Materials: White painted metal (brass) round frame. 60 hand blown embossed glass tubes. Long chrome rod and canopy. Some metal parts. Metal sockets.
Height: 110 cm / 43.30”
Width: ∅ 42 cm / 16.53”
Glass Tubes: ∅ 4 x 13 cm / 1.57 x 5.11”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 4 bulbs E14, 4 x 60 watt, 110/220 volt. Any type of light bulb can be used. Not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: DORIA-Studio.
Manufacturer: DORIA-Werkstätten, Walter Donner GmbH & Co. KG, Fürth, Germany.
Other versions: This DORIA round glass tubes chandelier exists in many forms and sizes. It was also made as flush mount and a wall lamp. These type of pendant lamps and chandeliers were produced from the sixties until the early 1980s. Slight variations in the glass. Versions were made with gold flakes inside and some other variations. A small version of this chandelier can be found here.
DORIA
DORIA-WERK, DORIA-Werk – Beleuchtungsglas – Beleuchtungskörper orDoria-Werkstätten, Walter Donner GmbH & Co. KG was founded after the second World War in Fürth, near Nürnberg, Germany in 1948. The name changed over the years. The internal design team was named DORIA-Studio. The company is often named Doria Leuchten.
DORIA no longer exists. The firm was declared bankrupt in 1986.
A similar but bigger chandelier received an iF Design Award in 1968, discipline: product.
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DORIA-Werkstätten Walter Donner GmbH & Co. KG won several other iF-Design Awards. You can find them over here: IF-Design Awards DORIA Werk.
Designers that worked for DORIA:
Wilhelm Braun Feldweg (1908-1998)
In 1965 he designed the table lamps Avus, Berlin-Serie, Modell 101.
Wikipedia Wilhelm Braun Feldweg.
Wilhelm Braun Feldweg website: bf-Design.
Wolfgang Tümpel (1903-1978)
Wikipedia Wolfgang Tümpel.
Richard Essig – Often said that he designed lamps for DORIA, but it was a wholesale company that bought, among other things, old stocks. Essig sold lamps made by Staff, Disderot, Massive and several other companies, labelled with Richard Essig – Besigheim. You will never find a lamp attributed to Essig with a DORIA label.
Klaus Slama designed several lamps for DORIA: The DORIA mushroom table lamp is one of them.
Vintageinfo
Another glass tubes chandelier
Square glass flush mount with these tubes