Other Designers

The uniquely Danish concept of hygge

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From time to time we hear someone in Denmark describing a vintage light – usually one that gives out...

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...

The Louis Poulsen Bornholmpendel

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The Bornholmpendel is rarely seen today, but in 1967 it was chosen by Louis Poulsen to feature on th...

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...

Fog & Mørup lights in Brio miniatures

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In the early 1970s Swedish toy manufacturer Brio Scanditoy Mobilia produced miniature versions of so...

The forgotten art of Oluf Gravesen

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Danish advertising for items of domestic design in the 1960s and 1970s often followed a very specifi...

Three of a kind

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Danish lighting companies Louis Poulsen, Lyfa and Nordisk Solar Compagni have all produced lamps wit...

Hvidt, Hvidt & Mølgaard's Safari

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Nordisk Solar Compagni’s Safari pendant light, pictured below, is often attributed to Jørgen Gammelg...

Henningsen & Schwalbe’s Kassablanka

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Constructed from four interlocking cubes with cutouts that allow only indirect light to emerge, Simo...

The real story of the Carl Thore lights

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There is an often-repeated urban myth that the multilayered pendant lamps usually known as Carl Thor...

Preben Dal: the mystery man of lights

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Who was Preben Dal? Nobody seems to know anything about the man who designed the wonderful Symfoni s...

Lyfa’s iF Product Design Awards

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The International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards have been presented annually since 1953 to produc...

The spiral that's not a Lyfa Weisdorf

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It's not uncommon to see one or other of the two spiral-structured lamps pictured below being attrib...

1960s prism lights by Werner Schou for Coronell

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The lights pictured below (reproduced from a February 1973 Coronell of Denmark catalogue in our poss...

A Tivoli tangle

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The diamond-shaped raw metal wall light pictured below was produced in the 1970s by Holm Sørensen A/...

Five of 100 great Danish designs of 1974

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In 1974 a special edition of Mobilia magazine was dedicated to showcasing, as the title of the issue...

The origins of the Danish star light

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A couple of years ago we wrote about the fact that we had been unable to find reliable information a...

Hvidt & Mølgaard’s Fog & Mørup light design

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Peter Hvidt (1916–1986) and his business partner Orla Mølgaard (aka Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen) (1907–199...

The Schlegel lamp and its Tarok lookalike

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Fritz Schlegel’s classic bell-like light for Lyfa, the Schlegel-lampe, designed in 1938, inspired a ...

Frandsen’s Fibonacci needs clear bulbs

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Danish architect Sophus Frandsen created the Fibonacci light, his timeless classic for Fog & Mørup, ...

A little-known light by Preben Dal

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Featured in Danish homestyle magazine Bo Bedre in January 1962 when his celebrated Symfoni (penultim...

Distinguishing the Karlebos from the Falcons

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We have often seen the light pictured in the first image below described as a Falcon, designed by An...

Piet Hein’s 1969 Ra lamp for Lyfa

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Bengt Rooke’s Tidsfasetter, a collation of historical art and design news items from Scandinavia, in...

The difference between Nordisk Solar and Anvia star lamps

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The star-shaped lacquered steel pendant light pictured below seems to embody the space-age style of ...

A rare 1960s wall lamp from Fog & Mørup

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At first glance the lights below, discovered in Finland, might be mistaken for a wall-mounted versio...

F&M Hekla’s fiery Icelandic connection

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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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