Bertil Brisborg
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a table lamp model "30595", Nordiska Kompaniet, 1940s.
Foot in antique patinated brass, leather-wrapped stem, shade in green lacquered brass, top in antique patinated brass, maker's mark NK 30595. Diameter of the shade ca 42 cm, height 55 cm.
Literature
Model illustrated in the Nordiska Kompaniet catalogue 1943 and the archive 1949.
Designer
Bertil Brisborg was head of the lighting department at Nordiska Kompaniet from 1941 and probably until the mid-1960s. He led the company into a new era and became a prominent figure for the new style ideals and the aesthetics that we know today as Swedish Modern. A characteristic feature of Brisborg's designs was the introduction of leather in lighting fixtures at the beginning of the 1940s, which at the time was a pioneering move. Brisborg led the work with fixtures for the Triva collection and designed several ground-breaking fixtures through the 1940-50s.
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