Manufacture: Körting & Mathiesen A.G., Leipzig-Leutzsch,
Model No. 571, anonymous, first generation, 1924/25.
Marked in the base: K&M (Körting & Mathiesen)
Measure: Height 20,9 inch, diameter reflector 6,9 inch.


_{State: Generally very good, tracks of use depending on the age, no dents. Working.}

Shade: sheet steel, extruded, stepped dome, exterior lacquered dark green, interior matt aluminium lacquer, which has particularly good reflecting properties. Lamp arm and shade can be tilted. Arm: steel tubing, lacquered bronze brown. Base: cast iron, lacquered bronze brown. Push switch in the base.

The company Körting & Mathiesen in Leipzig-Leutzsch was founded in 1889 and was one of the oldest and most important producers of lighting equipment in Germany. In the year 1914, the company registered the name "Kandem"
The development of the light bulb into a low-maintenance and user-friendly source of light with a multitude of uses led to broarden their rage of products.
Lighting was at that time still widely judged on the sole criterion of brightness. Now other factors could be focused on such as the avoidance of blinding light, unpeasant shadow effects, false angle of incidence, distracting reflections etc..
Paul Heyck, the later technical director, stood for the effects to be created with light as the primary factor in lighting and for stringently functional design in lighting fixtures which took technical criteria into consideration without excluding the creative power of design and the will to create. The partnership to the Bauhaus Dessau began 1927.
As early as the mid-1920s experiments had been conducted in investigating lighting technologies at the Weimar Bauhaus, esp. from Marianne Brandt.
In the year 1928 Körting & Mathiesen offered the Bauhaus a consulting contract fort he artistic design of lighting fixtures.
This Kandem desk lamp from 1924/5 represents the jumping-off point for the Bauhaus models, later designed in the metal workshop of the Bauhaus in Dessau.

In the thirties all lamps were available for delivery with safety plugs, three-core sheathed electrical flex.

Viewing by appointment. Location Berlin/Germany.

In: Ausst. Kat. Bauhausleuchten? Kandemlicht! Museum für Kunsthandwerk Leipzig, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 2002, im.p.83.
References: Kandem-Ergänzungspreisliste 1928, p.82.