German industrial designer and "poet of light" Ingo Maurer dies aged 87
Ingo Maurer ? the German designer whose playful, unexpected creations earned him the nickname "poet of light" ? passed away yesterday at age 87.
Over the course of five decades, Maurer re-conceptualised lighting design with his tongue firmly in his cheek, while being among the first to adopt the latest technical innovations from LEDs to OLEDs.
He died on Monday 21 October surrounded by family in his chosen home of Munich, where he has produced all his work since 1970.
Fuseproject founder Yves Behar wrote on Instagram that Maurer's "countless explorations about the magic and story of light will be deeply missed," while the team behind design brand Luminaire took to Twitter to mourn "a master of light, a dear friend, and a true visionary". Deyan Sudjic, co-director of London's Design Museum, tweeted that Maurer was simply "the most inventive and creative lighting designer of the century".
Over the course of his career he won a slew of the industry's highest accolades, from the Compasso d'Oro to the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the title Royal Designer of Industry, which he was awarded by the British Royal Society of Arts.
Maurer's Zettel'z 6 light was designed in 1998.
Maurer was born in 1932, in the brief period between the first and second world wars, on a small island in Lake Constance called Reichenau.
"I think of myself as a weed," he said in what was perhaps one of his last interviews. &q...
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