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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...]
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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...]
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...]
Hvidt & Mølgaard’s F&M light design
17 December 2010
Peter Hvidt (1916–1986) and his business partner Orla Mølgaard (aka Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen) (1907–1993) are best known for their furniture – in particular the Ax chair, designed in 1950 for Fritz Hansen [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...]
Nordisk Solar v Anvia star lamps
19 November 2010
The star-shaped lacquered steel pendant light pictured below seems to embody the space-age style of the late 60s and early 70s, but in fact it was designed for Nordisk Solar Compagni at the beginning of the 1960s by [read more...]
The mysterious Danish star light
13 September 2010
One of the many vintage Danish lights we count among our favourites is the large (50cm diameter), heavy (3kg) and fearsomely spikey star-shaped fixture pictured below. But its origins are [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...]
Safari is by Hvidt, Hvidt & Mølgaard
7 May 2010
Nordisk Solar Compagni's Safari pendant light, pictured below, is often attributed to Jørgen Gammelgaard. But it was actually designed in the 1970s by engineer Christian Hvidt together with [read more...]
