Rainer Lagemann
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Rainer Lagemann | |
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| Born | 14 September 1959 Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Education | Architecture |
| Alma mater | FH Lippe University |
| Known for | Metal sculptures and photography |
Rainer Lagemann is a German metal sculptor and photographer. He is best known for his abstract steel sculptures of the human body.
Lagemann was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on 14 September 1959. He attended the Albert Einstein Gymnasium for primary and secondary school, before taking an internship in a copper mine in Chile and then serving Germany with 18 months of civil service Zivildienst, delivering food to the elderly. He attended FH Lippe in Detmold, Germany in Interior-Architecture and Design between 1983 and 1987. After college he began a career in interior design. He moved to California in 1988, and eventually founded the interior design firm Bay Window Coverings in Berkeley, California. In 1992 he then founded The Magazine, which imported and retailed furniture from Europe to the Bay area.[1][2][3]
The Magazine
The Magazine was a furniture store chain in the Bay Area, with stores in Berkeley and San Francisco. Lagemann is the co-founder of The Magazine furniture chain in California and began his sculpture career in 2005. In 2001 he debuted the company website, and began selling the furniture online nationally, in addition to his brick-and-mortar stores. Within a few years, more than half of the company's business came in online.[4] The company brought in about $2.3 million per year as of 2003.[5] Lagemann sold his share in the business in 2007.
