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Staff Bubble Glass Pendant Chandelier
Model 7211 (round model) and 7175 (square model), a ceiling and/or wall lamp, won the iF-design award in 1964.
Staff Bubble Glass Pendant Chandelier – Parts
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Staff and Zumtobel history – company website
iF-design awards for this type of lights can be found here on the iF-design website: model 7211, model 7175.
Staff Bubble Glass Pendant Chandelier
Materials: Chandelier with 5 pendant lamps. Chromed metal round plates (iron) and tubes. Round smoked crystal bubble glass lampshades. Black metal ceiling mount. Metal & porcelain E27 sockets.
Cord Length: 120 cm – 47.24” – adjustable
Dimensions one lamp:
Height: 31 cm / 12.20”
Width: ∅ 17 cm / 6.69”
Electricity: 5 bulbs E27, 5 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, but preferably a white/opaque or frosted light bulb.
Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: “ Produktgestaltung Staff & Schwarz GmbH” ((Product design Staff & Schwarz GmbH).
These lights are 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.
Manufacturer:Staff & Schwarz Leuchtenwerke GMBH, Lemgo, Germany.
Other versions: This Staff bubble glass pendant chandelier exists in 3 different sizes and made in many forms. Also made as a wall lamp and a single pendent lamp. 3 different sizes flush mounts, table lamps and more. Also made quadrangular. A flush mount or wall lamp can be found here on Vintageinfo.
Model number: P105 – 60 watt.
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.
