German designer Ingo Maurer (Ingo Maurer) is engaged exclusively in light. He is 84, and for the last forty-five years he has been the tuning fork of all the light-emitters, keeps the industry in good shape. As no one else treats light creatively, provocatively and stylishly. “Pear” light bulbs, wings, butterflies, tea strainers, rat cages, pieces of paper with the words “I love you” in different languages, toothpaste tubes, porcelain Buddha heads - Maurer loves “frivolous” images, at the same time designs most sophisticated high-tech light systems. He teaches not to choose a lamp, but the light emitted by him, most of all appreciates rice paper as a material, although he is not averse to working with gold. Everything that Ingo Maurer and his team invents is manufactured in-house - Ingo Maurer GmbH. The company cooperates with the first names of design. So in 2016, Ron Arad himself worked for the brand, creating a steel Spyre with a limited edition of 50 copies.

Breaking Buddha: a chandelier with the same name is made of broken porcelain heads of a smiling Buddha. Bang Boom Zettel'z, 2010. Steel, LEDs, rice paper (80 sheets with drawings by T. Rotaker). Halogen lamp Aka Tsuki designed for the brand Ingo Maurer Matthias Liedtke. Materials: glass and metal. The initial version of the Flying Future lamp appeared in 2006. This was the first experiment of Ingo Maurer in OLEDs - organic light-emitting diodes. Finally, the model took shape in 2010. Dew Drops team Ingo Maurera introduced in 2013. 750 LEDs are mounted in a plastic plate. There are wall and desktop versions. Richi Povery Toto - 2014 model. Steel, lacquered brass, halonen lamp.

It is known that he can not stand the red color in clothes, is afraid to quarrel with his wife, loves the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and dances salsa. You can ask Maurer about post-war Germany and the rise of Silicon Valley. He was born in 1932 on the island of Reichenau, learned to be a printer, worked in printing houses, after which he became interested in graphic design and moved to America. Three years, from 1960 to 1963, he spent in New York and San Francisco, working as a graphic designer.

INGO MAURER Designer. In 1966, he founded Design M (later renamed Ingo Maurer GmbH). A team of 75 people. Showrooms in Munich and New York. In 2002, the personal exhibition was held at the Vitra Design Museum, at the Cartier Foundation (1989), at the Stedelic Museum (1993) and at the MoMA (1998).

In 1966 he made the legendary Bulb - a lamp in the form of an incandescent bulb with an incandescent bulb inside. It was so simple and original that the model immediately fell into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1985, at the Georges Pompidou Center at the exhibition “Lamps, I think of you,” the master showed a YaYa Ho installation from wires and gallogenok. In the late nineties, he suddenly became close to fashion designer Issei Miyaki and even designed his defile.

A series of serpentine lamps Alizz S. Cooper was released in 2008. For their manufacture used metal, plastic, rubber. Game design is practical: the direction of the light flux can be adjusted. Zufall series released in 2008. The name, translated as “accident”, “accident”, emphasizes the diversity and unpredictability of possible configurations. Metal, silicone. Tu-Be Two, 2009. Aluminum tubes, halogen. 24 Karat Blau - the work of Axel Schmidt for Ingo Maurer (2005). The modular principle underlying the model allows you to create compositions of any size and complexity. Materials: metal, sheet gold, plastic. Floor lamp Radarrr, 2010. Aluminum reflector, LEDs. Hanging Light Oh Man it's a Ray, 2010. Flying Flames on the background of the "Last Supper". The lamp was created by Ingo Maurer and Moritz Waldemeier. The model is arranged in a modular fashion. 2013 The Flying Flames chandelier was created by Ingo Maurer and Moritz Waldemeier. The model is arranged in a modular fashion. Spazio Krizia. Fragment of the exhibition Ingo Maurer 2014. In 2016, the presentation of new developments within the Milan Design Week was held in the building of the former church. In the photo you can see Ringelpiez, Ru Ku Ku, Keep Balance, Mickey's Manifesto and other new items. Exposition in the former church of St. Paul. Milan. 2016 The project Euro Condom - protest Ingo Maurer against the withdrawal from circulation of inefficient incandescent bulbs. It complements the lamp with a silicone case, thanks to which the light source becomes more efficient and consumes less heat.

Maurer limited himself to one field of activity, but already here he is a star of the first magnitude. He does not stop at the design of lamps - he transforms whole spaces with light, and no one makes it more artistic than he does. Classical performances include the atrium Galeries Lafayette (2004), the Munich station Westfriedhof (1998), Atomium (2006), Deutzer Bruecke (1997) in Cologne. Of course, his installations are in every Milan salon; So, in April 2016, Maurer painted the tower of Velask in the 1950s, the installation was called Glow, Velasca, Glow! And the designer’s early work at auction prices was on par with antiques.

Glow, Velasca, Glow! - installation, presented in April 2016 as part of the Milan Design Week. Ingo Maurer painted the tower of Velask, an architectural monument of the 1950s, in red and added with the Audi brand logo.

On Maurer's account a significant number of solo exhibitions and prestigious awards. In 2010, he was awarded the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the Ministry of Economics and Technology. In July of 2011 - Golden Compass (Compasso d‘Oro) for his contribution to the design; This award is established by ADI (Italian Association of Industrial Design). In November 2015, Maurer won the Bavaria Cultural Award.

The Fllatterby lamp was released in 2016 in a limited edition of 200 copies. It represents the development of the famous model Johnny B. Butterfly.

Maurer will never call his models a faceless combination of letters and numbers. All his works have poetic names: “Bird's Nest” (Bird Nest), “Fisherman's Tear” (Lacrime del Pescatore). In Schitz up, schizophrenia is treated as a dramatic cut in the bladder ceiling. Wandering Finger ("Wandering Finger") - in fact, a constructivist chandelier, more like a finger pointing.

The original concept of Light Cone - lighting without a lamp: just funnels in the ceiling through which light is pouring. Or Flying Flames - flickering candles. And finally, one of the recent inventions of the maestro, Euro Condom, is his criticism of the strategy of European energy consumption. Maurer came up with a condom cover that was put on the incandescent bulb so that it would not warm the space, but would spend energy only on the glow. Golden Ribbon - the luxurious “Golden Ribbon” - was invented by Ingo Mourer in 1994 for an exhibition in Tel Aviv, then others appeared. Each of the instances is unique, has its own dimensions and relief.

Golden Ribbon is a 4 m long model in the Ingo Maurer Munich showroom.

Maurer is rightly considered an artist worthy of the best museum sites. And the industry needs it as a designer who is able to quickly and aesthetically legalize a new technology. That is, Maurer comes up with a dizzying installation, gives an idea, which is then scattered in commercial lamps of very many companies. No one, for example, has experimented with LEDs as much. And no one more than he is fascinated by organic light-emitting diodes (OLED).

Spyre model was designed for the brand Ingo Maurer by designer Ron Arad in 2016. Steel, aluminum, painted plastic, LEDs. Limited Edition (50 copies).