Christian Dell (24 February 1893 – 18 July 1974) was a German silversmith.

Dell was born in Offenbach am Main in Hesse.
He served an exacting apprenticeship as a silversmith, spending the years 1907-1912 at the Schleissner & Söhne silver factory in Hanau as an apprentice while studying at the Königlich In 1913 Dell worked as a silversmith in Dresden before going to the Kunstgewerbeschule in Weimar, where he met Henry van de Velde.

During the World War I, Christian Dell served in the armed forces.
After the war, he was a journeyman in 1918-1920, and then went to work in Munich as a master silversmith for Hestermann & Ernst. In 1920 Christian Dell went to Berlin to work for the silversmith Emil Lettré. Then he returned to Hanau and reenrolled at the Preußischen Zeichenakademie.

From 1922 until 1925 Christian Dell was a works master in the metalworking workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he collaborated closely with László Moholy-Nagy and produced numerous designs for office and workplace metal light fittings. He was one of the designers who played a formative role in shaping the Bauhaus style.

From 1926, Christian Dell was head of the metalworking workshop at the Frankfurt art school (Städelschule), where he designed a great deal of lighting.
Works like “Rondella-Polo” (1926/27) table lamp and the “Idell” range, were mass produced mainly by Kaiser & Co., Rondella, and, later, also by Bünte & Remmler.

As an early industrial designer and pioneer of plastic design, Dell used bakelite and aminoplastics as materials in 1929-30.

In 1933, Dell was dismissed from his post by the Nazis, but Walter Gropius offered him a job in the United States. However, Dell decided to remain in Germany.

After World War II, Dell manufactured silver goods and opened a jewellery shop in Wiesbaden in 1948, which he operated until 1955.

He died in Wiesbaden in 1974.