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Hammerborgs on film
29 April 2013
Since becoming addicted to The Killing and Borgen we’ve tried out a mixed bag of other Danish TV series, and most recently have been watching The Protectors (Livvagterne in Danish). The set designer is clearly a Hammerborg fan, which has provided an entertaining sideline to the main action as we compete to see who can spot the Hammerborg lights first. We’ve taken snaps of some of our finds – in order of appearance: the Lento, the Single and the Ultra.
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Why Jo Hammerborg’s Orient is incomplete without its louvre
23 April 2013
So the first Jo Hammerborg light reproduction has finally appeared, and the wisdom of the crowd has made itself apparent in our poll by correctly predicting that the chosen model would be the Orient. [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg and the Formland lamp series
5 December 2012
The information that emerged from our correspondence with the Hammerborg family over the past 18 months (which has informed our new biography of Jo Hammerborg) has also provided interesting new perspectives on some of our previous Fog & Mørup blog posts. [read more...]
Our new website dedicated to Jo Hammerborg
26 November 2012
In May 2011 we wrote a post laying out the few facts we had been able to gather together during ten years of trawling through books, magazines, research libraries, personal contacts and the internet for information about Jo Hammerborg's life and work at Fog & Mørup, and appealed for readers with any further information to contact us. Today, thanks to [read more...]
Kastrup-Holmegaard’s Havanna series for F&M
21 May 2011
The Kastrup-Holmegaard glassworks produced many different individually mouth-blown glass lamps for Fog & Mørup during the 1960s. Today the least well-known of these are the Havanna series, which [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg: a man in the shadows
2 May 2011
Jo Hammerborg joined Fog & Mørup as head of design in 1957 and retired in 1980, only a short time before both his own death and the demise of the company. The Hammerborg era was F&M's most successful period – both creatively and [read more...]
The Senior and the President
3 March 2011
In the 1960s Jo Hammerborg designed two table lamps for Fog & Mørup which are easily and often confused. The Senior and the President have much in common, but several differences distinguish them from one another [read more...]
Fog & Morup’s Chrome and Golden Lines
24 February 2011
We wrote in an earlier post (which you can read here) about cross-model colour coordination at Fog & Morup under Jo Hammerborg's artistic direction through the 1960s and 1970s, which allowed the consumer to mix and match different models [read more...]
Jo Hammerborg’s rarest F&M light?
4 February 2011
One of Jo Hammerborg's earliest designs for Fog & Mørup is also perhaps his most rarely seen and least recognised F&M creation. The Kubus, pictured below in an F&M advertisement published in 1961 [read more...]
Changes ahead in the market for Jo Hammerborg lights