Ingo Maurer

Ingo Maurer GmbH is the Munich lighting house that has kept its address at Kaiserstrasse 47 in Schwabing since 1970, when the designer Ingo Maurer set up there. More than sixty people now work across design, production and projects; when the courtyard workshops became too small in 2005, production and shipping moved to the outskirts of the city and the former hall was turned into a showroom.

The output sits between product and installation: the low-voltage YaYaHo system from 1984, Japanese-paper shades, Birdie and Lucellino, and newer pieces such as NALUM and Strange Little Thing, all handmade in Munich. Ingo Maurer’s line that a lamp needs a co-designer describes the method, with lighting systems that invite users to arrange and extend them and a project department that takes on exhibitions, interiors and one-off light installations.