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The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Multi-Lite (1974)

Vintage Danish Lights — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:13 +0000

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 “No thanks”, “It’s too expensive”, or “It can’t be sold”. Among Louis Weisdorf’s 1970s lamp designs, the Multi-Lite is one [...]

The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Ekko (1968)

Vintage Danish Lights — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:00:24 +0000

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

The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Turbo (1967)

Vintage Danish Lights — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:00:36 +0000

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

The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Facet (1966) and Facet-Pop (1970)

Vintage Danish Lights — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:00:28 +0000

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,

The lights of Louis Weisdorf: Konkylie (1964/65)

Vintage Danish Lights — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:01:33 +0000

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,

More on the origins of the Søvaernspendel

Vintage Danish Lights — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:35:08 +0000

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

Your favourite Louis Weisdorf light design

Vintage Danish Lights — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:04:11 +0000

It's been some time since our last blog post, but we haven't been idle in the meantime, and our main project has been to give our sister site Classic Modern a complete redesign and makeover. We've also been making progress on

In memory of Claus Bolby (1944-2011)

Vintage Danish Lights — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:02:49 +0000

Today we heard the sad news that veteran Danish lighting designer and producer Claus Bolby, founder of Cebo Industri and creator of the popular acrylic light series Symfoni and Veega (pictured below), died last night after a long illness

A tale of two Topans: the Pendant & the Spot

Vintage Danish Lights — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:41:08 +0000

Verner Panton's futuristic 1959 Topan light design for Louis Poulsen has rarely been out of the limelight in its more than 50 years of existence. Frequently copied and never out of style, the clipped sphere

Finn Juhl and the drivers of vintage value

Vintage Danish Lights — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:09:24 +0000

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,