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Glashütte Limburg 6249 Table Lamp

Materials: Round base and mushroom lampshade made of clear frosted glass with a white layer inside. Some metal parts. Bakelite E27 socket.

Height: 31 cm / 12.20”

Width: ∅ 33 cm / 12.99”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, but a frosted or white light bulb is preferred.

Period: 1970s, 1980s.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Glashütte Limburg, Glashüttenweg 1, 65549 Limburg an der Lahn, Germany.

Other versions: This Glashütte Limburg 6249 table lamp exists in several sizes. The company made several other lamps in this type of glass.

Glasshütte Limburg

Initially, the company was named Glasshüttenwerke Limburg GmbH and employed 80 people. The production range covered drinking vessels, mugs and many other types of catering glasses.

Production capacities were increased and Glashütte Limburg became Europe’s largest lighting glass specialist within just a few years, employing almost 1000 people.

The rapid expansion reached its limits at the end of the 50’s. The chairman of the glass-works Supervisory Council, Dr. Gottfried Boley, suggested in 1962 that the shares in the company held by the state of Hessen should be privatised.

In the same year, the company succeeded in winning BEGA Gantenbrink-Leuchten OHG, founded in 1945 – which was at that time already one of the largest companies in the German lighting industry – as its ideal partner.

Catalogues

The very first lighting catalogue of Glashütte Limburg appears in 1963.

Six luminaires from the range, presented for the first time in 1964 at the Hanover industrial trade fair, receive awards for excellent design from the Industry Forum and are included in the special exhibition “gute Industrieform” (good industrial design).

40 years after the first catalogue appeared, the range of lamps from Glashütte Limburg has increased to 1800 different products.

Designers

Many lamps of the company were designed by the Designabteilung Glashütte Limburg (design department) or Atelier Glashütte LimburgHerbert Proft and Heinz-Josef Ohm designed many awarded lamps. 

One of the best known designers was Helena Tynell who created several lamps for the company. Her most famous are the bubble glass lamps series. Helena Tynell (1918 – 2016) was married to the famous designer Paavo Tynell (1890-1973).

Awards

The Glashütte Limburg company received the state prize for “Gute Form 1982” (good design 1982) and the “Corporate Design Award 1985“.

Glashütte Limburg received 160 iF Design Awards.