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When Wilhelm Wagenfeld designed his table lamp in the Bauhaus workshop following
a task issued by Moholy-Nagy, the requirement was clear: the result should be an
industrial product, i.e. one that could be mass-produced by a machine. And the material
and design vocabulary actually correspond to the idea of the machine age. Only,
manufacturing reality was different. WA 24 was produced as a mini-series for the 1924
Leipzig Autumn Fair in handmade concentrated and elaborate craftsmanship.
And this is still the case today.
