Max Bill, Height-adjustable sunlamp / table light 'IV-5-Sun', 1951 (design)

Description

H. 60 cm (max.), Ø 14.5 cm.
Novelectric AG, Zurich.
Gray enameled sheet metal, chrome-plated metal hose.
Marked: NOVELECTRIC AG ZÜRICH (embossed).

Literature:

Exh. cat. Max Bill zum 80. Geburtstag, Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR, Weimar 1988, p. 82; Exh. cat. Design since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia 1983, p. 143.

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Max Bill, Height-adjustable sunlamp / table light 'IV-5-Sun', 1951 (design)

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