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Archive for July 2010
Secret treasure in the F&M Orient
26 July 2010
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 Orient Minor (far left in the picture below) made of solid [read more...]
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The spiral that isn’t a Lyfa Weisdorf
22 July 2010
From time to time we see one or other of the two spiral-structured lamps pictured below being attributed to Louis Weisdorf for Lyfa. Usually in these cases no title is given for the light, but occasionally it is claimed [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s earliest F&M designs
19 July 2010
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. Out went the cumbersome chandeliers [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s Sera and Dano lights
12 July 2010
One of several themes that ran through Jo Hammerborg's work at Fog & Mørup during the 1960s was that lights were often produced in either two or three different metals/finishes – usually aluminium and copper when [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s Fog & Mørup Zero light
6 July 2010
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 of rarest Fog & Mørup light of the 1960s and 1970s – the "Hammerborg period" that was [read more...]
F&M’s 1970s collaboration with Arabia
3 July 2010
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 embraced several [read more...]
The uniquely Danish concept of hygge