Hustadt-Leuchten Mushroom Desk Lamp

Materials: Round chrome base & rod. Black round lampshade with a hole in the middle, painted white inside. Bakelite E27 socket.

Height: 48 cm / 18.89”

Lampshade: ∅ 36,5 cm / 14.37”

Base: ∅ 17 cm / 6.69”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Hustadt-Leuchten, Neheim-Hüsten (Arnsberg), Germany.

Other versions: This Hustadt-Leuchten mushroom desk lamp exists in several colours. A yellow version with a different base can be found here. It also exists with a different base. the lampshade is reminiscent to a Louis Kalff design for Philips.

Hustadt-Leuchten

Hustadt-Leuchten was founded in September 1962 as Walter Hustadt GmbH & Co. KG Leuchten. Not much is know about it. The company officially ended business in may 2014. It went bankrupt some 5 years before.

Hustadt-Leuchten always produced high quality lamps. You can find a few lamps on this website. Hustadt-Leuchten received several design awards, all for lamps designed by Klaus Hempel.

One of the most well known designers for Hustadt-Leuchten was Klaus Hempel, who also designed lamps for the famous Gebr. Kaiser & Co. Leuchten company, also from Germany.

Hustadt

Hustadt is also a small German town that was build in the late 1960s as a model neighbourhood according to the general urban standards, to fulfil the requirements for approximately 6000 inhabitants. The town is build on the edge of the city of Bochum. It’s surrounded by woods and fields on the one side, and offshoots of the enormous campus of the Ruhr University, as well as other housing areas on the other side.