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Our blog about Danish modern lighting and other midcentury design
The precursor to Bent Karlby's Pan series for Lyfa
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22/04/2010
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Most collectors of midcentury Danish lighting are aware of Bent Karlby's designs for Lyfa, which inc...
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Verner Panton and Poulsen's LamPetit
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Did Verner Panton design Louis Poulsen's versatile LamPetit? Certainly the compact little lamp is un...
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The uniquely Danish concept of hygge
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15/07/2010
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From time to time we hear someone in Denmark describing a vintage light – usually one that gives out...
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Fog & Mørup’s iF Product Design Awards
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Initiated in 1953, the International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards are presented annually to prod...
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The Louis Poulsen Bornholmpendel
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03/06/2010
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The Bornholmpendel is rarely seen today, but in 1967 it was chosen by Louis Poulsen to feature on th...
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Fog & Mørup's 1970s collaboration with Arabia
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In the mid-1970s Fog & Mørup made a brief return to its roots in ironmongery when it embarked upon a...
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Fog & Mørup lights in Brio miniatures
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31/12/2010
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In the early 1970s Swedish toy manufacturer Brio Scanditoy Mobilia produced miniature versions of so...
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A tale of two Topans: the Pendant & the Spot
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23/06/2011
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Verner Panton’s futuristic 1959 Topan light design for Louis Poulsen has rarely been out of the lime...
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The forgotten art of Oluf Gravesen
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29/10/2010
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Danish advertising for items of domestic design in the 1960s and 1970s often followed a very specifi...
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Three of a kind
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28/04/2010
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Danish lighting companies Louis Poulsen, Lyfa and Nordisk Solar Compagni have all produced lamps wit...
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Hvidt, Hvidt & Mølgaard's Safari
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07/05/2010
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Nordisk Solar Compagni’s Safari pendant light, pictured below, is often attributed to Jørgen Gammelg...
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Henningsen & Schwalbe’s Kassablanka
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31/05/2010
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Constructed from four interlocking cubes with cutouts that allow only indirect light to emerge, Simo...
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Panton and PH weren't just good friends
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11/05/2011
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The family connection between two of the great Danish lighting designers is widely known – indeed, a...
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Looks like Bent Karlby for Lyfa, but isn't!
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17/06/2010
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With its structure of concentric metal squares and the light effects produced by the overlapping lay...
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The 1970 launch of F&M’s Formland
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27/05/2010
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Bent Rooke’s fascinating Tidsfasetter, a collation of art and design news items from Scandinavia str...
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Jo Hammerborg's Zenith pendant
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21/06/2010
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One of the most frequently misattributed Fog & Mørup lights is the Zenith, pictured below, whose des...
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Ole Panton's Seks-tre-pendel
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14/06/2010
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One of the more elusive lights produced by Lyfa in the 1960s is the Seks-tre-pendel (pictured below,...
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Jo Hammerborg and the Formland lamp series
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05/12/2012
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The information that emerged from our correspondence with the Hammerborg family over the past 18 mon...
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The real story of the Carl Thore lights
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10/12/2012
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There is an often-repeated urban myth that the multilayered pendant lamps usually known as Carl Thor...
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Preben Dal: the mystery man of lights
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20/05/2010
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Who was Preben Dal? Nobody seems to know anything about the man who designed the wonderful Symfoni s...
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Hidden treasure in the F&M Orient
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26/07/2010
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Few people know that when Jo Hammerborg‘s Orient pendant light first appeared on the market in the e...
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Finn Juhl and the drivers of vintage value
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08/06/2011
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The perceived value (and so the price) of a vintage Danish light is usually fairly closely related t...
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Jo Hammerborg’s earliest F&M designs
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19/07/2010
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When Jo Hammerborg joined Fog & Mørup in 1957 he lost no time in transforming the company’s product ...
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Lyfa’s iF Product Design Awards
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28/06/2010
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The International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards have been presented annually since 1953 to produc...
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The spiral that's not a Lyfa Weisdorf
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22/07/2010
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It's not uncommon to see one or other of the two spiral-structured lamps pictured below being attrib...
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Jo Hammerborg’s Sera and Dano lights
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12/07/2010
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One of several themes that ran through Jo Hammerborg’s work at Fog & Mørup during the 1960s was that...
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Zero: probably Fog & Mørup's largest and rarest light
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06/07/2010
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The multi-cylindrical Zero (pictured below), a classic Jo Hammerborg creation dating from late 1970 ...
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Verner Panton’s Panthella 3-light
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27/08/2010
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When people come across a vintage Panthella for the first time they often think there’s something wr...
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Looks like a PH 4/3 but isn't!
modblog
07/08/2010
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The Penta (below) is a little-known Fog & Morup light designed by Jo Hammerborg and first appearing ...
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1960s prism lights by Werner Schou for Coronell
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20/08/2010
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The lights pictured below (reproduced from a February 1973 Coronell of Denmark catalogue in our poss...
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Fog & Mørup’s 1969 Rainbow Line
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16/08/2010
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In 1969 four Fog & Mørup light models – Andreas Hansen’s Falcon and Jo Hammerborg’s Juno, Zone and E...
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A Tivoli tangle
modblog
12/08/2010
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The diamond-shaped raw metal wall light pictured below was produced in the 1970s by Holm Sørensen A/...
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Five of 100 great Danish designs of 1974
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02/08/2010
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In 1974 a special edition of Mobilia magazine was dedicated to showcasing, as the title of the issue...
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Poul Henningsen’s lighting manifesto
modblog
18/03/2011
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In November 1966 Danish homestyle magazine Bo Bedre published a feature by Kirsten Bundgaard in whic...
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How Fog & Mørup’s Formland avoids dazzle
modblog
24/09/2010
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An early 70s edition of Design from Scandinavia reveals the material that architects Sidse Werner an...
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Quality System – back from obscurity
modblog
16/09/2010
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From its inception in 1965 until its demise in 1985, Danish lighting company Quality System was huge...
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The origins of the Danish star light
modblog
21/11/2012
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A couple of years ago we wrote about the fact that we had been unable to find reliable information a...
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Hvidt & Mølgaard’s Fog & Mørup light design
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17/12/2010
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Peter Hvidt (1916–1986) and his business partner Orla Mølgaard (aka Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen) (1907–199...
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Kastrup-Holmegaard’s Havanna series for F&M
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21/05/2011
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The Kastrup-Holmegaard glassworks produced many different individually mouth-blown glass lamps for F...
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Danish modern space stations?
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25/04/2011
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In September 1972, journalist Bengt Rooke reported in Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet that a 60-stron...
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Colour coordination in Danish lights
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12/11/2010
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In the late 1960s both Louis Poulsen and Fog & Mørup launched lines of assorted lamp models in coord...
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End of an era: Tivoli's Divan 2 closes
modblog
04/04/2011
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When Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens opens its gates on 14 April for the 2011 summer season, the doors t...
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Danlite Inc is Fog & Mørup USA
modblog
11/03/2011
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Now and again it’s possible to find vintage lights by a New York-based company called Danlite Inc be...
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Jo Hammerborg’s Saturn series
modblog
24/08/2010
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One particular group of Fog & Mørup lights by Jo Hammerborg – which for convenience here we will cal...
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Poulsen’s IT lamp and the ghost of PH
modblog
07/01/2011
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In view of their seminal influence both in Denmark and internationally, it is no surprise that Poul ...
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The Senior and the President
modblog
03/03/2011
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In the 1960s Jo Hammerborg designed two table lamps for Fog & Mørup which are easily and often confu...
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Jo Hammerborg’s smallest light?
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04/02/2011
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One of Jo Hammerborg’s earliest designs for Fog & Mørup, the Kubus (pictured below in an F&M adverti...
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Fog & Morup’s Chrome and Golden Lines
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24/02/2011
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We wrote in an earlier post about cross-model colour coordination at Fog & Morup under Jo Hammerborg...
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The price of a gold-plated Fog & Mørup Semi
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14/04/2011
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Following the post we wrote recently about Fog & Mørup’s Golden Line, the range of 24-carat gold-pla...
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The Schlegel lamp and its Tarok lookalike
modblog
28/01/2011
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Fritz Schlegel’s classic bell-like light for Lyfa, the Schlegel-lampe, designed in 1938, inspired a ...
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Frandsen’s Fibonacci needs clear bulbs
modblog
26/11/2010
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Danish architect Sophus Frandsen created the Fibonacci light, his timeless classic for Fog & Mørup, ...
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A little-known light by Preben Dal
modblog
21/01/2011
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Featured in Danish homestyle magazine Bo Bedre in January 1962 when his celebrated Symfoni (penultim...
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Distinguishing the Karlebos from the Falcons
modblog
22/10/2010
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We have often seen the light pictured in the first image below described as a Falcon, designed by An...
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Piet Hein’s 1969 Ra lamp for Lyfa
modblog
02/09/2010
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Bengt Rooke’s Tidsfasetter, a collation of historical art and design news items from Scandinavia, in...
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Weisdorf’s Konkylie was made for trees
modblog
06/09/2010
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Louis Weisdorf’s extraordinary Konkylie ("Conch Shell") light was originally designed for Copenhagen...
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The difference between Nordisk Solar and Anvia star lamps
modblog
19/11/2010
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The star-shaped lacquered steel pendant light pictured below seems to embody the space-age style of ...
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Hans Due’s Optima was white at launch
modblog
30/09/2010
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Bengt Rooke’s Tidsfasetter, a collation of vintage Scandinavian art and design news, includes an ite...
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A rare 1960s wall lamp from Fog & Mørup
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14/01/2011
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At first glance the lights below, discovered in Finland, might be mistaken for a wall-mounted versio...
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F&M Hekla’s fiery Icelandic connection
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14/10/2010
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It is widely known that Fog & Mørup’s mid-1960s Hekla pendant light was created by two furniture des...
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