Bernhard Dessecker is a designer, lighting designer and interior designer with over thirty years of international experience. He became known through his long-standing collaboration with Ingo Maurer, whose striking lighting objects he played a decisive role in developing as a close colleague and project manager. His most influential designs include the “Swingading” floor lamp for the Ingo Maurer collection (1990), which was an extremely innovative lighting solution at the time, and “Spock,” a minimalist wall and ceiling spotlight that won the iF Design Award in 2000. He began his career as an interior designer at Studio Morsa in New York in 1983, moving to Maurer's Munich design team a year later.
During this time, he created luminaires such as ‘Johnny B. Good’, “Knüller” and ‘Bastardo’, which combine technical sophistication with poetic lightness. Dessecker was also involved in major lighting projects, including the design of the Münchner Freiheit and Marienplatz underground stations in Munich. At the same time, he developed his own work and realised projects for international clients such as Moooi, BMW and the Goethe-Institut.
