Jo Hammerborg

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 products deemed by its jury of international experts t...

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 collaboration with Finnish company Arabia which e...

Fog & Mørup lights in Brio miniatures

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In the early 1970s Swedish toy manufacturer Brio Scanditoy Mobilia produced miniature versions of some of the interior design classics of the day for ...

The 1970 launch of F&M’s Formland

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Bent Rooke’s fascinating Tidsfasetter, a collation of art and design news items from Scandinavia stretching back to the 1960s, includes an article on ...

Jo Hammerborg's Zenith pendant

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One of the most frequently misattributed Fog & Mørup lights is the Zenith, pictured below, whose designer is often given as Simon P Henningsen, son of...

Jo Hammerborg and the Formland lamp series

modblog 05/12/2012 0

The information that emerged from our correspondence with the Hammerborg family over the past 18 months has been an important source for our new profi...

Hidden treasure in the F&M Orient

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Few people know that when Jo Hammerborg‘s Orient pendant light first appeared on the market in the early 1960s, the range included a version of the Or...

Jo Hammerborg’s earliest F&M designs

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When Jo Hammerborg joined Fog & Mørup in 1957 he lost no time in transforming the company’s product range and bringing it firmly into the modern age. ...

Jo Hammerborg’s Sera and Dano lights

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One of several themes that ran through Jo Hammerborg’s work at Fog & Mørup during the 1960s was that his lights were often produced in either two or t...

Zero: probably Fog & Mørup's largest and rarest light

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The multi-cylindrical Zero (pictured below), a classic Jo Hammerborg creation dating from late 1970 or early 1971, is a strong candidate for the title...

Looks like a PH 4/3 but isn't!

modblog 07/08/2010 0

The Penta (below) is a little-known Fog & Morup light designed by Jo Hammerborg and first appearing in the record in 1965. More traditional in form an...

Fog & Mørup’s 1969 Rainbow Line

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In 1969 four Fog & Mørup light models – Andreas Hansen’s Falcon and Jo Hammerborg’s Juno, Zone and Equator – were brought together in vibrant red, yel...

Kastrup-Holmegaard’s Havanna series for F&M

redvangang 21/05/2011 0

The Kastrup-Holmegaard glassworks produced many different individually mouth-blown glass lamps for Fog & Mørup during the 1960s. Today the least well-...

Colour coordination in Danish lights

modblog 12/11/2010 0

In the late 1960s both Louis Poulsen and Fog & Mørup launched lines of assorted lamp models in coordinated colours under unifying taglines. In 1968 an...

Jo Hammerborg’s Saturn series

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One particular group of Fog & Mørup lights by Jo Hammerborg – which for convenience here we will call the Saturn series – embodies Hammerborg’s most e...

The Senior and the President

modblog 03/03/2011 0

In the 1960s Jo Hammerborg designed two table lamps for Fog & Mørup which are easily and often confused. The Senior and the President (pictured in tha...

Jo Hammerborg’s smallest light?

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One of Jo Hammerborg’s earliest designs for Fog & Mørup, the Kubus (pictured below in an F&M advertisement published in 1961 and in our own photos) is...

Fog & Morup’s Chrome and Golden Lines

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We wrote in an earlier post about cross-model colour coordination at Fog & Morup under Jo Hammerborg’s artistic direction through the 1960s and 1970s,...

The Schlegel lamp and its Tarok lookalike

modblog 28/01/2011 0

Fritz Schlegel’s classic bell-like light for Lyfa, the Schlegel-lampe, designed in 1938, inspired a number of similar designs with which it is often c...


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