Technics x Fritz Hansen collaborate on a Bauhaus-era lamp and turntable at 3 Days of Design

To accompany their collaborative Sound Membership set up on the 2026 3 Days of Design, Fritz Hansen and Technics have teamed as much as launch a novel restricted version of the Technics SL-40CBT Direct Drive Turntable paired with an identical reissue of the Kaiser Idell Luxus 6631-T desk lamp.

Each items are characterised by their matching deep burgundy end, a colourway that unites two merchandise designed over three a long time aside. The lamp first appeared in 1936, created by designer Christian Dell, as soon as the top of the metallic workshop within the Walter Gropius-era Bauhaus in Weimar. It joins an upgraded version of the Technics direct drive SL deck, first launched in 1970.

Previewed on the 3 Days of Design set up, the 2 editions draw a direct synergy between the artwork of business design and the contemplative act of listening to music. It’s as if the eye to element lavished on the turntable and the lamp can not directly draw extra element out of the music itself.

In response to Technics’ Ryo Ogasawara, ‘Music is an artwork of time. Time flows with out kind, quietly imprinting itself on our feelings by means of sound. On this collaboration, gentle shapes area, and the sound that emerges permits time to be felt, looking for to present rise to an expertise that’s deeply human.’

Dario Reicherl, the CEO of Fritz Hansen’s Asia division, was one of many driving forces behind the Copenhagen set up. ‘Sound and lightweight each change how an area feels with out touching its construction,’ he explains, ‘That is what we needed to discover, two objects with distinct origins that, collectively, kind a setting that’s thought of and deeply human.’

The lamp is undeniably a traditional, fusing Bauhaus geometric precision with simply the correct quantity of detailed craft and metalwork. Like many high-design objects of the modernist period, it evokes the simplicity and easy simplicity of a machine-made industrial object but really requires excessive ranges of craft and talent to understand. Its affect may be seen within the mass-produced lamps that proceed to roll off the manufacturing strains of producers like IKEA.

The Technics SL-40CBT turntable is extra of a mass-produced object, albeit one with a unique type of affect. The direct-drive motor system not solely supplied extraordinarily steady rotation and correct sound, but it surely paved the way in which for DJ tradition. Scratching and beat matching are nigh-on not possible with a standard belt-driven system; cease the report and it received’t immediately restart however slowly construct up pace. Direct-drive programs, pioneered by Technics and epitomised within the legendary SL-1200 mannequin, saved the tempo regular even because the report was manipulated by the DJ.

The 2 corporations will make a restricted variety of every object out there from later within the yr. Fritz Hansen is ready to supply 200 lamps throughout Asia and Europe markets, whereas the Technics turntable can be manufactured in a restricted version of as much as 300 items. These can be positioned on show at choose Fritz Hansen accomplice shops and bought by means of the corporate’s normal distribution channels world wide.