Christian Dell

Christian Dell (1893-1974) was born and raised in Offenbach am Main in Hesse. He studied silver forging from 1907-1911. He studied at Saxon College of Arts and Crafts in Weimar for a year and worked as a foreman of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1933, Walter Gropius offered him a job in the United States. Dell chose to remain in Germany and worked for Kaiser & Co. His career jumpstarted in 1926; Dell sketched lamp designs for the New Frankfurt project. As an early industrial designer and pioneer of plastic design, he used bakelite and amino plastics as materials for his work for Molitor-Zweckleuchten.