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Archive for May 2010
Henningsen & Schwalbe’s Kassablanka
31 May 2010
Simon P. Henningsen's Kassablanka pendant light was designed circa 1964 for Lyfa, and the lamp's name was derived from its shiny metal exterior – "kassa blanka" being Danish for "shining box". And as Simon's widow Bente [read more...]
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The 1970 launch of F&M’s Formland
27 May 2010
Bent Rooke's fascinating Tidsfasetter, a collation of art and design news items from Scandinavia stretching back to the 1960s, includes an article on the launch party for Sidse Werner and Leif Alring's [read more...]
Fog & Mørup’s iF Product Design Awards
24 May 2010
Initiated in 1953, the International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards are presented annually to products deemed by its jury of international experts to meet the evaluation criteria for outstanding excellence in [read more...]
Preben Dal: mystery man of lights
20 May 2010
Just who was Preben Dal? Nobody seems to know anything about the man who designed the wonderful Symfoni series of lights for Hans Følsgaard A/S (see example below, often wrongly attributed to [read more...]
Art and design at Fog & Mørup
17 May 2010
Creativity in design was the core value at Fog & Mørup during Jo Hammerborg's reign as head of design from 1957 to 1980. This was reflected in the company's [read more...]
Did Lyfa light the Sydney Opera House?
13 May 2010
We know that Lyfa produced the lighting for some important buildings during its existence, including Arne Jacoben's Aarhus town hall – a commission that it won by undercutting [read more...]
Safari is by Hvidt, Hvidt & Mølgaard
7 May 2010
Nordisk Solar Compagni's Safari pendant light, pictured below, is often attributed to Jørgen Gammelgaard. But it was actually designed in the 1970s by engineer Christian Hvidt together with [read more...]
Kastor is Hammerborg, not Weisdorf
4 May 2010
The lights pictured below have often been attributed to Louis Weisdorf for Fog & Mørup. The truth is that Louis Weisdorf never designed lights for F&M at all, and the lights – entitled [read more...]
Is this why Danes love lights?
1 May 2010
With a population of less than 5.5 million, Denmark surely produced more lights per head in the 50s, 60s and 70s than anywhere else in the world. Many were made for export, but vast numbers were [read more...]
A dangerous time for lights