Description
Set of four mid 20th century candle holders
Designed and created by Hans Nagel and Werner Stoff with the original release in the late 1960s.
These stackable candle holders can be used independently or can be stacked to create different heights and shapes.
More information about Stoff Nagel:
Hans Nagel met the architect and artist Werner Stoff in the design community of Cologne. Nagel had long been interested in making beautiful things for the dinner table, while Stoff had been working as a performing artist and had developed his own signature line of rounded objects “without corners.” Their shared loved for good design and passion for art sparked a creative match.
Nagel told Stoff that he was struck by an idea during a skiing vacation in The Alps where an accidental backward tumble forced him to break the fall with his hand, thus creating the finest three finger-holes in the snow. The perfect holes brought a candle holder to mind — a beautiful, sculptured and simple candle holder with room for three slim sticks.
Nagel asked Stoff if he would like to make the design for him? This question launched an adventure much like humankind’s desire to reach the moon, motivated by the vast technological achievements of the decade and honed by the boom in individualist expression. Cologne’s rebirth brought the world’s first art market to town. Worldwide ‘design’ was a force influencing all layers of society, and the candle holder became an objet d’art symbolizing movement away from the status quo.
(information from stoffnagle.com)
Condition report:
Good Condition – Good original condition with some small speckled marks (visible on close inspection)
The candle holders stack well.
Dimensions:
H. 6.7cm W. 10.2cm D. 9.2cm (measurements for a single candle holder)
Ref. 40i