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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...]
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...]
Finn Juhl and the drivers of vintage value
8 June 2011
The perceived value (and so the price) of a vintage Danish light is usually fairly closely related to its historical retail price. Broadly speaking, the more expensive the light originally was, [read more...]
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End of an era: the Divan 2 closes
4 April 2011
When Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens opens its gates on 14 April for the 2011 summer season, the doors to one of its oldest and most venerated restaurants, the Divan 2 (pictured below) – for which Simon P Henningsen created the glitteringly multifacted Divan 2 light – will remain closed [read more...]
Hammerborg’s Tarok & the Schlegel lamp
28 January 2011
Fritz Schlegel's classic bell-like light for Lyfa, the Schlegel-lampe, designed in 1938, inspired a number of similar designs with which it is often confused [read more...]
The forgotten art of Oluf Gravesen
29 October 2010
Danish advertising for items of domestic design in the 1960s and 1970s often followed a very specific format. The featured product would be photographed in a room setting together with items by other manufacturers that were generally considered to be amongst the most prestigious and desirable designs of the time. These secondary items [read more...]
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