Sompex Nylon Thread Pendant Lamp

Materials: Round lampshade made of clear acrylic slats wound with nylon thread. White plastic canopy. Bakelite E27 socket.

Cord Length: 63 cm / 24.80”

Height: 27 cm / 10.62”

Width: ∅ 48 cm / 18.89”

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: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: Paul Secon.

Manufacturer: Sompex GmbH & Co. KG, Werftstraße 20-22, 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany. Before: Sompex Licht und Form, Rolf O. Burghard KG.

Other versions: This Sompex nylon thread pendant lamp exists in many variations. All made of acrylic, sometimes coloured or smoked acrylic, together with nylon fishing wire.

Sompex

Sompex was founded in 1948 by Rolf O. Burghard as the Soest Import en Export Company in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In 1950 they moved to Düsseldorf. Sompex was the exclusive importer of Scandinavian design and expanded rapidly.  Since the 1970s Sompex is focused on interior lighting. The company is a family business and it still exists. 

Sompex also sold lamps produced by Rotaflex. More info over here.

Paul Secon

No information can be found about a (lamp) designer. A Paul Secon exists (July 13, 1916 – February 24, 2007), but it was an American entrepreneur and song-writer who co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother, Morris, in 1950.

These lamps were also sold as a kit to make them yourself by some companies, but they look different, as you can see in this America advertisement. 

Acrylic: often named by its commercial name: Perspex, Plexiglas, Crylux, Acrylite, Lucite, is a (mostly) transparent thermoplastic.