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Louis Weisdorf
The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Multi-Lite (1974)
27 January 2012
The economic downturn of the 1970s brought new challenges for the designers of high-end lamps and other luxury goods, as producers' support for the experiments of the 1960s gave way to a constant refrain of [read more...]
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The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Ekko (1968)
20 January 2012
The Ekko is another of Louis Weisdorf's designs based on repeating – or echoing – elements, though in this case the angular metallic sections take two forms, the two end pieces differing [read more...]
The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Turbo (1967)
13 January 2012
Louis Weisdorf created the design for his Turbo pendant light in 1965, and in 1967 Lyfa was ready to start production. Consisting of 12 uniform aluminium lamellae spiral-twisted to form a flower-like sphere [read more...]
The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Facet (1966) and Facet-Pop (1970)
6 January 2012
In the Facet pendant light, designed by Louis Weisdorf in 1963 and produced by Lyfa from 1966, the particular art of Weisdorf's lighting designs is perhaps most clearly visible. Like a 3D jigsaw puzzle, [read more...]
The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Konkylie (1964/65)
30 December 2011
In 1963 when Danish architect Louis Weisdorf made the drawings for Konkylie, the first of his light designs, nine years had passed since (aged 22) he'd been one of the youngest ever graduates of Copenhagen's Royal Academy, [read more...]
Weisdorf’s Konkylie was made for trees
6 September 2010
Louis Weisdorf's extraordinary Konkylie ("conch shell") light was originally designed for Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, where it hung from trees in glorious fiery clusters. Like Simon P Henningsen's [read more...]
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...]
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...]
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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