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Jo Hammerborg

Jo Hammerborg designsJo Hammerborg (1920–1982) was head of design at Fog & Mørup from 1957 to 1980, a period that saw the company's greatest success both artistically and commercially. Hammerborg trained as a silversmith before going on to study fine art at Copenhagen's Kunstakademiet, and worked at Georg Jensen for eight years until he joined F&M, where he rapidly transformed the company's product lines and its fortunes. He was a prolific designer, creating over 60 lamps and collaborating with others to adapt their designs to meet F&M's stringent production requirements. In 1980 Hammerborg left F&M to set up his own lighting design business. His departure coincided with the demise of the company as it underwent a series of mergers that resulted in the F&M brand ceasing to exist. Tragically, his own demise came at around the same time, when on 23 July 1982 he died in a skydiving accident. Read our extended Jo Hammerborg profile here.


Brand: Fog & Mørup
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 ..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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 ..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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Brand: Fog & Mørup
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..
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