midgard K831 pendant light, natural aluminium

Pendant lamp K831 with directable shade - Reedition of a historical lamp

The pendant lamp K831 proves that even a design that is about a century old can be cutting-edge. The original design, dating from 1929, is a concept by Curt Fischer (1890 - 1956), who is regarded as the inventor of "directable light". Joke Rasch and David Einsiedler are responsible for the new edition; today the designers run midgard, a company founded by Curt Fischer in 1919, at whose production site in Hamburg the lamp is handcrafted. The result is a high-quality pendant luminaire that shines equally with versatile combinability and with functionally sophisticated details.

The shade is a truncated metal cone open at the bottom, which can be rotated at the upper dome of black Bakelite. The light cone can thus be directed as needed, for example, to the left or right side of a long table. In addition, there is a rotary switch that allows immediate operation directly on the lamp, without the need to go to the wall switch. External switching and dimming is still possible (with the switch on the luminaire). The suspension is composed of a textile cable and a round steel canopy in black.