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Hammerborgs on film

Vintage Danish Lights — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:53:34 +0000

Since becoming addicted to The Killing and Borgen we’ve tried out a mixed bag of other Danish TV series, and most recently have been watching The Protectors (Livvagterne in Danish). The set designer is clearly a Hammerborg fan, which has provided an entertaining sideline to the main action as we compete to see who can [...]

Why Jo Hammerborg’s Orient is incomplete without its louvre

Vintage Danish Lights — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:38:31 +0000

So the first Jo Hammerborg light reproduction has finally appeared, and the wisdom of the crowd has made itself apparent in our poll by correctly predicting that the chosen model would be the Orient.

Changes ahead in the market for Jo Hammerborg lights

Vintage Danish Lights — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:48:45 +0000

One of the features that has driven the increasing popularity of 60s and 70s Fog & Mørup lighting as a target for collectors – along with the consistently high quality and design excellence of the individual lights themselves and the cohesiveness of the F&M brand as a whole during this period – has been the fact that (with the exception of the Semi)

Fog & Morup did not produce Carl Thore lights

Vintage Danish Lights — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:01:14 +0000

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

Jo Hammerborg and the Formland lamp series

Vintage Danish Lights — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:37:58 +0000

The information that emerged from our correspondence with the Hammerborg family over the past 18 months (which has informed our new biography of Jo Hammerborg) has also provided interesting new perspectives on some of our previous Fog & Mørup blog posts.

Our new website dedicated to Jo Hammerborg

Vintage Danish Lights — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:08:55 +0000

In May 2011 we wrote a post laying out the few facts we had been able to gather together during ten years of trawling through books, magazines, research libraries, personal contacts and the internet for information about Jo Hammerborg's life and work at Fog & Mørup, and appealed for readers with any further information to contact us. Today, thanks to

Solved! the Danish star light designer mystery

Vintage Danish Lights — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:19:51 +0000

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

Another twist in the Jørn Utzon Søvaernspendel debate

Vintage Danish Lights — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:28:33 +0000

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

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

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