Gubi BL7 Wall light

With its functional, streamlined design language the BL7 wall light from Bestlite is a symbol of elegant objectivity. It exudes the charm of the famous Bauhaus school as its designer Robert Dudley Best was a keen Bauhaus enthusiast. Due to its classic and purist design the Bestlite BL7 serves as an elegant eye-catcher that adds that special something to any wall. A careful processing of selected materials additionally refines the sophisticated look of the BL7. The wall bracket and the lamp shade (except the bone china variant) are made of powder-coated aluminium, the wall light’s arm is made of glossy, chrome-plated stainless steel. The lamp shade is available in a variety of colours.

The works of Robert Dudley Best who was inspired by the Bauhaus style were at first a particularly popular solution for car repair shops. They represented a visual highlight without pushing their way to the foreground; additionally, they improved the working conditions with their target-oriented light. A source of inspiration for the Bestlite BL7 wall light were also the designs by artists such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier whose works Best already attentively studied in 1925 at the International Exposition in Paris. The Bestlite luminaires experienced a sensational boom and became icons thanks to an incident that had an immense effect: the fact that the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill placed the table lamp on his desk in Whitehall had an invaluable promotional value for the BL table lamp and triggered an outright hysteria in Great Britain. In 1984, Robert Dudley Best died as one of the best-known British designers of the 20th century.