Bertil Brisborg, a ceiling lamp, model "33135", Nordiska Kompaniet, Sweden 1950s.
Red blasted and white lacquered metal, brass details and a wooden knob at the bottom, for one light, marked 40W NK 530008 Made in Sweden Patent S, adjustable height, diameter 24 cm.
Minor wear, loss of color, later wooden knob. Recently rewired.
Depicted in the 1954 catalog.
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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