Ingo Maurer

by Kim Hastreiter, Julie V. Iovine, Claude Maurer

COOPER-HEWITT COLLECTION

German-born Ingo Maurer is one of the most prolific and respected artist/designers working today. Fascinated by what he calls the magical and mystical properties of light, Maurer constructs luminous atmospheres that play with traditional concepts of color, brightness, and shadow. Since 1966, Maurer has created more than 150 different lights and lighting systems, and designed for diverse international venues, including fashion runways, public buildings and monuments, and private commissions. Maurer uses unexpected materials and found objects to create light, and he is among the first designers to experiment with halogen and light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Smithsonian s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Provoking Lighting of Ingo Maurer presents a broad array of Maurer s iconic works, remounted and reconceived specifically for this project.

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2007

About the author

Kim Hastreiter is co-editor of the independent New York fashion magazine, Paper. Via her Macintosh SE 30 (which, as a keepsake, still occupies a corner of her office desk) she was a “lurker” on The Well throughout the early 1990s. She was recently profiled in the New York Times.