Bertil Brisborg, a model '30595' table lamp, Nordiska Kompaniet, 1940's.
Brass with leather-wrapped leg. Green lacquered shade. Two light points. Shade diameter 43 cm, height 55 cm.
Elctrical function not tested. Wear. Minor damage to leather. Colour losses to inside of the lampshade. Bottom plate with later screws.
Depicted in the Nordiska Kompaniet catalog of 1943, and archive 1949.
The model appears in Arvid Böhlmark's Lamp Factory catalogs from 1959, under model number 15624. It is likely that Böhlmark purchased NK's remaining stock when production of consumer fixtures was scaled down and eventually ceased around 1965.
Bertil Brisborg (1910-1993) served as the head of NK's lighting department from 1941, likely until the mid-1960s. He ushered the company into a new era and emerged as a prominent figure in shaping the new style ideals and aesthetics that we now recognize as Swedish Modern. One of the defining aspects of Brisborg's creations was his pioneering use of leather in lighting fixtures during the early 1940s, a groundbreaking development in Scandinavian lighting manufacturing at the time.
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