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Archive for June 2010
Lyfa’s iF Product Design Awards
28 June 2010
The International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards have been presented annually since 1953 to products deemed by an international committee of experts to be of outstanding excellence in design. Several Lyfa lights [read more...]
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F&M Orient lookalikes from the UK
23 June 2010
The paradigm-changing originality of 1960s and 1970s Fog & Mørup light designs and the high cost of their uncompromisingly top-quality production led to countless cheap imitations. Many copyists [read more...]
Zenith is Hammerborg, not Henningsen
21 June 2010
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 [read more...]
Hillebrand, not Bent Karlby for Lyfa
17 June 2010
With its structure of concentric metal squares and the light effects produced by the overlapping layers, it is perhaps unsurprising that the red and white wall light pictured in the first two images below is sometimes [read more...]
Ole Panton and the Seks-tre-pendel
14 June 2010
One of the more elusive lights produced by Lyfa in the 1960s is the Seks-tre-pendel (pictured below, left), an unorthodox creation by Ole Panton. Born in Fyn, Denmark in October 1938 when his brother Verner [read more...]
Louis Weisdorf, Wiesdorf or Weissdorf?
10 June 2010
The name of the Danish architect who in the 1960s designed several lights that are today considered to be amongst Lyfa's most interesting and collectable – including the Turbo, the Facet-Pop, the Ekko, the Multi-Lite [read more...]
The Louis Poulsen Bornholmpendel
3 June 2010
The Bornholmpendel is rarely seen today, but in 1967 it was chosen by Louis Poulsen to feature on the front cover of its product catalogue (see below). The light was designed [read more...]
Tips for buying vintage Danish lights