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Vintage 1990's designer light.

Pre owned condition, may show some imperfections, working condition tested.

Inspired by gummi bear candies, designers Heinz Klein and Georg Leidig present a lamp that looks good enough to eat, and which adds a warm, friendly, and whimsical touch to any room.
Manufactured by German firm Elmar Flötotto.

The molded polypropylene indoor lamp was designed to take up to a 60W incandescent bulb. It also accepts modern LED and some CFL bulbs to display your preferred colorimetry or increased brightness.

Period: 1990s.

Designer: Heinz Klein and Hans-Georg Leidig in 1995.

Manufacturer: Elmar Flötotto, Rietberg, Germany.

Other versions: The Elmar Flötotto Lumibär table lamp (light bear) was made in many colours and sizes over the years. Made as an indoor lamp, outdoor lamp, even changing LED-light colours in a white bear.

Exists in Three sizes: 43 (16.92”) and 58 cm (9.05”) and 74cm (20.13"). Also made in a seated version (35 cm / 13.77”).

Many imitations were produced, beware!


Elmar Flötotto
Elmar Flötotto is a family run business in it's fourth generation. The company was founded in 1906 by Heinrich Flötotto as a furniture joinery business in in Gütersloh (Avenwedde), Germany.

After World War II, in 1946, Heinrich's sons Fritz and Franz continue his work. They now have a sawmill, as well as a home furniture and school furniture factory. In 1951, Flötotto expands with a chipboard plant in Arnsberg in the Sauerland region, some 50 km / 30 miles from Dortmund.

Between 1969 and 1991, the third-generation descendants of the founder take over the company they have inherited.

Flötotto is bests known for the shaped seat, patented on order a global scale in 1952, and 20 million chairs have already been sold around the world. The seat shells are made from PAGHOLZ® plywood.

Heinz Klein
Heinz Klein was born in 1944 in Troisdorf-Sieglar in Germany. Since 1971 he is self-employed with an office for interior design and design. He made successful designs of furniture, furniture systems and fixtures for leading international companies. Heinz Klein won several design prices. He is a painter, musician, author and designer.

Hans-Georg Leidig
Hans-Georg Leidig was born in 1953. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter with subsequent company studies, he studied interior architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. After his studies in 1980, he has been working as an interior architect and designer. Leidig owns an interior design and design firm in Troisdorf, Germany, not far from Cologne. He received several awards for his designs.