Christian Dell

Christian Dell was born in Offenbach am Main in Hesse on the 24th of February 1893. From 1922 to 1925, he worked as a foreman of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar where he was the man behind a highly innovative and pioneering style of design. Beginning in 1926 Dell sketched lights, often for the lamp factory Gebr. Kaiser & Co. he first catalogue was launched in 1936 in which the table lamp model 6631 Luxus appeared for the first time. This lamp soon became the undisputed top model of the KAISER idell™-serie – then, as well as today, the symbol of noble Germanic design, exquisite choice of materials and precise engineering.