Mitchell Bobrick / LAMA
Lot 104, Mitchell Bobrick Floor lamp by Controlight Today is Mitchell's birthday so it seems like a good day to post about him. Mitchell Bobrick (November 10, 1921 - February 1979) was born in Colorado and moved to California in 1941. With his degree in aeronautical engineering from Denver University, he went to work for aerospace manufacturer Lockheed in Los Angeles. Like many other optimistic designers from that era, post-war he began his own company to make life better through design. He produced furniture and lighting through his company, Controlight. His lighting designs focused on humble materials being used in dynamic new ways to solve problems he saw with traditional lighting. Iron, fiberglass, wood and ceramic were combined to create lamps focused on indirect and diffused light. The claim was that the fiberglass discs have an 80% reflection factor. He went on to say the lamps were "scientifically designed lighting instruments that…are new concepts based on an old i...
