Askepot, which translates into English as Cinderella, is an unusual industrial-style Jo Hammerborg pendant light design dating from 1976–77 and an exercise in textural contrast, with its glassily glossy red cap sitting atop a shade that has a grainy texture resembling cast iron on the outside and a ..
With its futuristic rocket-shaped outline, Jo Hammerborg's Corona is a space-age classic and beautifully captures the optimistic mood and silvery aesthetic of the Apollo moon landing – so it's startling to realise that he actually created it sometime between 1957 and 1963, in the early period of his..
Designed in 1967 with a diameter of 22.5cm and height of 31.5cm, the Central is a member of Jo Hammerborg's Saturn series – a collection of lights in which Hammerborg, Fog & Mørup's head of design, explored the art of balance and proportion in form through a structure of two concentric cylindric..
As we wrote back in 2011 in a blog post which you can read here, Fog & Mørup's Golden Line was a mid-1970s premium offering of a small number of the company's lines in 24-carat gold-plated editions. One of the selected lines was Jo Hammerborg's multi-layered Milieu, and this is a rare exam..
With an emerald green outer band and a light grey inner cone section, this rarely seen pendant lamp was one of Jo Hammerborg's earliest designs for Fog & Mørup, dating to the early 1960s. Entitled Krinoline, the lamp was only produced in small numbers at the time, but nearly a decade later Hamme..
Jo Hammerborg's Lento table/desk lamp series was launched by Fog & Mørup in the mid-1960s in three versions – aluminium, brass and copper. This example is the solid brass edition and is in excellent condition with no damage and with appropriate patination for its age. The 14cm diameter head can ..
The first five years of Jo Hammerborg's 23-year reign as head of design at Fog & Mørup were the most creative of his entire career. In this period he redefined the F&M brand and put into production 24 of the approximately 60 light designs he would eventually create for the company, one of wh..
One of Jo Hammerborg's first wave of lighting designs for Fog & Mørup, the Alfa wall light and its sibling the Beta table lamp appear in F&M catalogues for spring 1963, but this particular iteration of the Alfa, in battleship grey and silvery spun aluminium, first appears in a Fog & Møru..
Designed by Jo Hammerborg and put into production by Fog & Mørup in the mid 1970s, the uncompromisingly cylindrical Sektor was described in a 1975 F&M catalogue as "a lamp of simple design with a central cone of light which produces a warm atmosphere". It is especially suitable for hanging o..
Jo Hammerborg's Vega pendant lamp, created for Fog & Mørup in 1968, evidences more clearly than any of Hammerborg's other designs the eight years from 1949 to 1957 he spent as a silversmith at Georg Jensen. The fluid organic lines of objects and jewellery he worked on there by designers includin..
First issued by Fog & Mørup in 1963, Jo Hammerborg's Nova was produced in three versions – copper, brass and satin aluminium. This example is the copper version and is in exceptionally good original condition with no damage. The Nova has a diameter of 40cm (15.75 inches) and a height of 18c..
Created in 1969 for Fog & Mørup by the company's head of design Jo Hammerborg, the Kastor is a strong statement lamp with an imposing presence sufficient to form a centrepiece in any room and particularly well-suited for use over a dining table or other focal point. The lamp was produced in two ..