He is particularly famous for pioneering the use of plastics in design. He worked with materials such as bakelite and aminoplastics. Throughout his career, he designed over 500 models. The Kaiser Idell luminaires, whose name is a contraction of "idea", his own name and the manufacturing plant, are legendary pieces.
Biography
Christian Dell was born in Germany in 1893. He trained as a silversmith and apprenticed at the Schleissner & Söhne factory in Hanau. He subsequently worked in various workshops in Dresden, Weimar, Munich and Berlin. From 1922 to 1925, he was appointed head of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He launched several collections of metal desk lamps. He subsequently worked with Geber. Kaiser & co, the factory manufacturing the Kaiser Idell lamps he had designed. After the Second World War, he decided to devote himself to jewelry-making. He ran a store in Wiesbaden from 1948 to 1955.