Lot 89: GYULA PAP

A RARE FLOOR LAMP

A RARE FLOOR LAMP

measurements note
69 7/8 in. (177.5 cm) high

produced by the Bauhaus Workshop

ca. 1923

nickel-plated metal, glass and black-lacquered iron

LITERATURE

Bauhaus: 50 Years, exh. cat, Royal Academy of Art, London, 1968, p. 107 (for a drawing of the lamp)
Die Metalwerkstatt am Bauhaus, Berlin, 1992, pp. 236-237
Bauhaus Archiv and Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933, Cologne, 1993
Bauhaus-Möbel: Eine Legende wird besichtigt, Berlin, 2003, p. 86

NOTE

Gyula Pap designed this floor lamp model for the living room of the "Haus am Horn," an experimental home that served as an exhibition of Bauhaus accomplishments in 1923.