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Mistaken identity
Fog & Morup did not produce Carl Thore lights
10 December 2012
In recent months we have noticed an apparent increase in the number of eBay sellers repeating the incorrect claim that the multilayered pendant lamps usually known as Carl Thore lights were produced by Fog & Mørup. The true origin of the Carl Thore lamps and the story behind them [read more...]
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Solved! the Danish star light designer mystery
21 November 2012
A couple of years ago we wrote a post (which you can read here) about the fact that we had been unable to find reliable information about the origins of one of our favourite vintage Danish lights [read more...]
Another twist in the Jørn Utzon Søvaernspendel debate
29 August 2012
The identity of the designer of the Søvaernspendel, the light produced first by Nordisk Solar Compagni and later by Louis Poulsen, has been the subject of an ongoing debate on this blog over the past couple of years. Our previous posts and the valuable insights contributed by our readers [read more...]
More on the origins of the Søvaernspendel
5 October 2011
A Danish reader, Harry Møller Nielsen, left a most interesting comment yesterday on our blog entry Jørn Utzon and the Søvaernspendel, one of two we wrote last December [read more...]
Danlite Inc is Fog & Mørup USA
10 March 2011
From time to time it's possible to find vintage lights by a Long Island, New York-based company called Danlite Inc being advertised for sale in the United States. These lights are, however [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...]
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...]
F&M wall lamp is Helth not Panton
14 January 2011
The owner of the pair of lights pictured below thought that they might be a rare wall-mounted version of Verner Panton's Flowerpot. The Fog & Mørup labels present on the lights, however, reveal that [read more...]
More on Utzon and the Søværnspendel
24 December 2010
Following our recent piece on the debate about whether Jørn Utzon or the Danish Navy designed the Søværnspendel (which can be read here), we received an interesting email [read more...]
Jørn Utzon and the Søværnspendel
10 December 2010
The question of who designed the light known as the Søværnspendel has been the subject of much debate in recent years, with opinion divided between those who believe it to be a Jørn Utzon creation and those who say [read more...]
