German light company Midgard is reproducing a lamp that was used at the Bauhaus school to coincide with its 100th anniversary.
The adjustable TYP 113 lamp was first produced by Midgard, a company was founded in 1919. Hamburg entrepreneurs David Einsiedler and Joke Rasch took over Midgard's business in 2015, and re-launched 100 of the TYP 113 to celebrate the company's anniversary this year.
Also known as a Steering Lamp, the light was designed by Curt Fischer to solve poor lighting on factory workbenches. Architect Walter Gropius, a friend of Fischer, however, used it to equip his Bauhaus design school in Dessau.

TYP 113 was an innovation in the early 1920s and is credited with leading the commercial production of articulated lights. The design features an adjustable arm made of nickeled pipe with a rotating porcelain knob. An enamel lampshade can be raised, lowered and turned for optimal light direction.

The curved arm and moveable shade allow the user to pull the lamp towards themselves and turn its head, casting the light at the desired angle onto the workplace or a specific piece. There are five rotation points for flexibility: two at the clamp, two at the head, and one at the shade.
When the lamp was first created Gropius was among its early adopters, and he had TYP 113 lights fitted in the Dessau school's metal workshop and at his home. Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus school, also had Midgard's lamps in the reading rooms of his General German Trade ...