Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt, one of the few women admitted to the Bauhaus metal workshop under László Moholy-Nagy, made the small brass and ebony tea infuser of 1924 that became an icon of geometric design. Her more lasting influence came through the Kandem bedside and desk lamps she developed with Hin Bredendieck for the Leipzig firm Körting and Mathiesen from 1928, with adjustable shades that later task lamps followed.