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Doria Square Glass Flush Mount
Materials: White painted metal (brass) square frame. 32 hand blown embossed glass tubes. Square embossed glass lampshade. Square brass ring. Some metal parts. 2 metal E27 sockets.
Height: 16 cm / 6.29”
Width: 37 x 37 cm / 14.56 x 14.56”
Glass Tubes: ∅ 4 x 13 cm / 1.57 x 5.11”
Electricity: 2 bulbs E27, 2 x 75 watt maximum. 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 square glass flush mount exists in many forms and sizes. It was also made as a chandelier and a wall lamp. Made in endless variations. These type of lamps 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 chandelier received an iF-Design Award in 1968, discipline: product. A square flush mount with many round tubes in 1979.
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.
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