Bertil Brisborg & Åke Hultgren, a table lamp model "2043", Nordiska Kompaniet 1940s-50s.
Base in brass, leather-clad column, interior uplight shade in white lacquered metal with one lamp socket, and three additional lamp sockets, shade in natural-coloured textile, marked NK 2043. Height 60 cm.
Minor wear, patina, and stains, newly rewired.
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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