"Wo bist du, Edison?" Lamp

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"Wo bist du, Edison?" Lamp

Designed 1997

From the beginning of his career, Ingo Maurer has had a deep fascination with the bare lightbulb. Wo bist du, Edison? (Where Are You, Edison?) is his homage to the inventor of the lightbulb, Thomas Alva Edison. One of Maurer's most technologically advanced designs, this lamp is a 360-degree hologram of a lightbulb that appears to be suspended in the center of an acrylic cylinder. The actual source of light, a halogen bulb, is inside a socket in the shape of Edison's profile.

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Object Details

Titles:

"Wo bist du, Edison?" Lamp

Date:

Designed 1997

Artists:

Medium:

Acrylic, glass, aluminum, hologram

Dimensions:

9 7/8 x 18 1/8 inches (25.1 x 46 cm)

Classification:

Lighting

Credit Line:

Gift of Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in honor of James Fulton, 2004

Accession Number:

2004-1-1

Geography:

Made in Munich, Germany, Europe

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