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DORIA Snowball Flush Mount

Materials: Round white painted metal (iron) ceiling mount. White painted brass rods. 27 swirled crystal glass globes or balls with decorative brass nuts. 7 white painted Bakelite E14 sockets.

Height: 38 cm / 14.96”

Width: ∅ 38 cm / 14.96”

Electricity: 7 bulbs E14, 7 x 40 watt max, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb with an E14 socket can be used. But a clear twisted one is preferred, as used in this setup.

Period: 1960s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: DORIA-Werkstätten, Walter Donner GmbH & Co. KG, Fürth, Germany.

Other versions: These “snowball” lamps were made in many forms and sizes. Made as several different flush mounts, wall lamps, sputnik chandeliers, even table lamps and floor lamps. This DORIA snowball flush mount also exists in a smaller version and in brass or brushed aluminium.

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.

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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

Klaus Slama designed several lamps for DORIA: The DORIA mushroom table lamp is one of them.

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.

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Other DORIA lamps

Doria Snowball Chandelier

1960s Doria Snowball Sputnik Chandelier, Germany, swirled crystal glass balls/globes, brass.

Doria Sputnik Snowball Flush Mount

1960s Doria Snowball Sputnik Flush Mount, Germany, swirled crystal glass balls, brass