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Siegfried GIEDION Table Lamp | Switzerland 1932#1096803

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Siegfried GIEDION Table Lamp | Switzerland 1932#1096803
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Rare desk lamp designed by the architect, critic and writer Siegfried GIEDION for BAG Turgi for Wohnbedorf AG, Zurich, Switzerland. Matte-finish enameled metal shade and base with adjustable arm in nickel. Original paper label. Excellent condition. <p> Literature: Schweizer Typen 1925-1935 : Sigfried Giedion und die Wohnbedarf AG by Friederike Mehlau-Wiebking, 1989. <p> Siegfried GIEDION (Prague 1888 - 1968 Zurich)
Swiss historian of architecture. Giedion was a close associate of Walter Gropius. He was a key figure of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (see CIAM) from its inception (1928), and taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, where he became chairman of the graduate school of design. Giedion presented lectures at Harvard in which he broke with the German materialist tradition of 19th-century art history and described history in terms of constancy and change. These lectures were collected in "Space, Time, and Architecture" (1941). Among Giedion&#39;s other works are "Mechanization Takes Command" (1948), two volumes of lectures entitled The Eternal Present (1964), and "Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition; The Three Space Conceptions in Architecture, (1968), handed over to his publisher the day before he died.
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<tr><td>Condition:Fine</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Title:Siegfried GIEDION Table Lamp | Switzerland 1932</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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