The design of lighting is among the most challenging and at the same time most fascinating tasks for designers, artists and architects. The history of lighting design covers an amazing wealth of different positions, methods and approaches and reflects both technical innovations as well as cultural-historical and social developments. Thus, lighting objects from the start of the 20th century show examples of how design changed from arts and crafts to series production, whilst lighting objects from the second half of the 20th century develop an amazing range of forms and also raise questions of lighting technology, production processes and global sales. The Vitra Design Museum's Lighting Collection numbers over 1,000 items and includes designs from Gino Sarfatti, Verner Panton, Poul Henningsen, Vico Magistretti, Isamu Noguchi, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Serge Mouille, Richard Sapper and Ingo Maurer.
