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Archive for August 2010
Verner Panton’s Panthella/3-light
27 August 2010
When people come across a vintage Panthella for the first time they often think there's something wrong with the on/off switch. "It's not working properly", they say. "I have to step on it twice to bring the light on, and [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s Saturn series
24 August 2010
One particular group of Fog & Mørup lights by Jo Hammerborg – which for convenience here we will call the Saturn series – embodies Hammerborg's most easily recognised and most [read more...]
Coronell, not Hans-Agne Jakobsson
20 August 2010
It has been brought to our attention that, in one of the misinformation feedback loops so common on the internet, sellers on Swedish auction site tradera.com have been in the habit of describing the lights pictured below as [read more...]
Fog & Mørup’s 1969 Rainbow Line
16 August 2010
In 1969 four Fog & Mørup light models – Andreas Hansen's Falcon and Jo Hammerborg's Juno, Zone and Equator – were brought together in [read more...]
‘Tivoli’ wall light is by HS, not SH
12 August 2010
The designer of the diamond-shaped wall light pictured below is often said to be Simon P Henningsen. Both this raw metal version and another lacquered in black and white are, it is claimed [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s Penta is not a PH 4/3
7 August 2010
The Penta, pictured below, is a little-known Fog & Morup light designed by Jo Hammerborg and first appearing in the record in 1965. More traditional in form and [read more...]
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13 of 100 great Danish designs of 1974
2 August 2010
In 1974 a special edition of Mobilia magazine was dedicated to showcasing, as the title of the issue announced, "One Hundred Great Danish Designs!" The 100 featured products were chosen as [read more...]
