The plates are dropped or smashed with a hammer—and the rest is calculated architecture:

Ingo maurer porca miseria. Is produced in limited number by ingo maurer and his team. We will be happy to advise you! He was nicknamed poet of light.

Executed by ingo maurer gmbh, steel wire, fragmented white porcelain, cutlery. Porca miseria chandelier is one of his best works. Made of smashed plates, porca miseria!

Ingo maurer (german, born 1932) Ingo maurer gmbh kaiserstrasse 47 80801 münchen tel. Cooper hewitt, smithsonian design museum.

In good quality and affordable price? “believe it or not, it takes four people almost five days,” explains maurer. I’m talking about incredible german designer ingo maurer who created a chandelier called ‘porca miseria!, a suspension lamp made with porcelain shards.ingo maurer, born in 1932, studied graphic design in munich | germany.

Other examples of this model are included in the collections of the museum of modern art, new york. Maurer is a pioneer in the use of new lighting technologies and imaginative production techniques. 114.3 × 101 × 82.6 cm.

[what a disaster!], a ceiling light. It is a revolt against the slickness of contemporary design, and a celebration… “porca china” is a variation of the suspension lamp porca miseria!.