Staff Bubble Glass Flush Mount

Staff bubble glass flush mount transparant rectangular label model 7006 7016 7056 3 x 60 watt West Germany

Staff bubble glass flush mount wall lamp big round embossed lampshade 1960s 1970s Germany E27 sockets

Staff Bubble Glass Flush Mount – 1977 Catalogue Picture

Models on this page of the catalogue: 7054, 7055, 7056, 7057, 7261, 7262, 7264 & 7265.

Label inside and inside of this ceiling lamp.

This flush mount or wall lamp has won an iF-design award in 1967. It can be found here on the iF-design website: model 7006

Staff Bubble Glass Flush Mount Or Wall Lamp

Materials: White plastic round ceiling mount. White painted Bakelite E27 sockets. Embossed aluminium reflector. Porcelain terminal block. Big round crystal bubble glass lampshade.

Height: 10 cm / 3.93”

Width: ∅ 38 cm / 14.96”

Electricity: 3 x E27 bulbs, 3 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulbs can be used. Not a specific one preferred.

Period: 1960s – 1980s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: The internal design team of Staff.

Manufacturer:Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerke GMBH, Lemgo, Germany.

Other versions: This Staff bubble glass flush mount was made in several sizes and many forms. Made as a pendent lamp, a combined pendant lamp, table lamps, flush mounts and others. Also made quadrangular. A nice example of a pendant chandelier with similar glass parts as this flush mount or wall lamp can be found here on Vintageinfo. The biggest version of this flush mount is ∅ 50 cm / 19.68”. This flush mount is a version of the late 70s, early 80s. Earlier versions have a metal ceiling mount.

Model number: 7006/7016/7056

Often attributed to Helena Tynell, but here bubble lamps are different. She designed bubble lamps for Glashütte Limburg in the 1960s, another famous German light company. More info about those lamps can be found here on Vintageinfo.

These lamps were made for a very long time, they were a big success. They were produced from the 1960s until the 1980s with some slight variations. Several bubble lamps from Staff are on display here on Vintageinfo.

Staff

Staff Leuchten – Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerk (lighting plant) – was established by Alfred Staff and Otto Schwarz in Lemgo, (West) Germany in 1945.

Their business started as a shop for consumer goods in wood and metal as well as pesticide for controlling the Colorado potato beetle, a huge problem at that time.

Within a year they the company expanded with 15 employees and they produced the first wrought iron luminaires. Over the next three decades, Staff was to develop into a world leader in design excellence, receiving over 200 awards for their achievements.

Staff also collaborated with the Italian company Stilnovo. They published a joint catalogue in the 1970s. The Dutch Raak and the Danish Lyfa sold several lamps in the 60s and 70s. Several other companies did.

In 1994 Zumtobel bought the company.

Staff

Staff Leuchten – Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerke (lighting plant) was founded in 1945 in Lemgo, (West) Germany by Alfred Staff (1908–1989) and Otto Schwarz (1902–1951). After the war they left the Soviet occupation zone and set up a small three-man business in Lemgo producing consumer goods in wood and metal, repair work and pesticide against the Colorado potato beetle. The location in Westphalia-Lippe was chosen deliberately: the area already had veneer and lighting manufacturers, which made it a natural base for a new lighting company.

In 1946 Staff produced its first wrought-iron lamps, followed by large orders for spa complexes in the region. After the death of Otto Schwarz in 1951,Alfred Staff took over all shares and shifted the focus from project lighting to serial production of innovative, design-oriented luminaires.

From the late 1950s onwards the company became one of Germany’s most decorated lighting manufacturers. Staff was among the first winners of the “Gute Industrieform” (today iF Design) awards at the Hanover Fair, and over the next three decades collected more than 200 design prizes. In the 1960s the firm built up an international sales network, introduced the Variolux electronic dimmer (1966) and launched Lite-Trac (1967), one of the first VDE-compliant track lighting systems, which helped to position Staff as a pioneer in architectural and technical lighting.

Staff collaborated with numerous designers, including Rolf Krüger, Motoko Ishii, Kazuo Motozawa, Arnold Berges, Gerhard Beigel, Alfred Kalthoff and others. Several Japanese designs originally created for Yamagiwa – such as Motozawa’s Saturno series – were marketed in Europe by Staff, while some Staff models were licensed to other brands. In the 1970s the company published a joint catalogue with Stilnovo, and lamps from Staff appeared in catalogues from Raak, the Netherlands, and the Danish Lyfa, among others.

In the early 1990s the Austrian Zumtobel Group gradually acquired the company: in 1993 it took a majority stake, and by 1994 owned 100% of the shares. The lighting activities were continued under the brand Zumtobel Staff, with the Staff name remaining in use until 2006. The Lemgo factory is still one of Zumtobel’s key production sites for spotlights and lighting systems.