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Bordlamper Fog & Mørup Desk Lamp Lampe de Bureau Schreibtischlampe Denmark 1940’s
Very nice desk lamp by Fog & Mørup from Denmark.
Ansgar Fog and E Mørup met in 1902 at the firm of Marinus Kock in Aarhus, Denmark. They rapidly became close friends and began to develop the idea of going into business together.
The pair started business as agents and wholesalers in 1904 in three small rooms with cellars in Fiskergyde in Aarhus. Both Fog and Mørup were then 24 years old.
In 1906 Fog & Mørup moved to Copenhagen and began to specialise in lighting,
In 1915 they opened their first lighting factory. Rapid expansion of the company over the next two decades, together with the takeover of several other lighting companies, required the factory to move to larger premises more than once.
It was in the early 1960s that Fog & Morup really emerged as a significant force in lighting design, following the company’s appointment in 1957 of Johannes Hammerborg as head of design, which initiated what was to prove the most creative and commercially successful period in its history.
Hammerborg’s sleek and innovative modernist designs became the trademark style of Fog & Morup throughout the 60s and into the 70s, and propelled the company into the forefront of Danish modern lighting.
The company’s belief that ‘presented with a challenge, designers as individuals or in design groups will achieve their finest work’ enabled them to attract many talented architects and designers to work under Hammerborg’s exacting eye, including Sophus Frandsen, Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup, Jørgen Bo, E Balslev, Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen, Sidse Werner, Hans Due and Peter Avondoglio.
This lamp dates from the pre second world war aera.
The lamp parts are made of metal (no rust) either chromed or painted.
Height = 41 cm (16.14 inch)
D lamp shade = 31 cm (12.2 inch)
D base = 13 cm (5.11 inch)
weight = 1800 gram
Wire length = 120 cm (47.2 inch)
E27 bakelite lamp holder and bakelite plug. New wiring.
The lamp is safe but does not meet today’s safety requirements.
The lamp has been thoroughly cleaned and checked.
Very nice vintage condition consistent with age and normal use.
Please look at the pictures and judge for your self.
Very nice desk lamp by Fog & Mørup from Denmark.
Ansgar Fog and E Mørup met in 1902 at the firm of Marinus Kock in Aarhus, Denmark. They rapidly became close friends and began to develop the idea of going into business together.
The pair started business as agents and wholesalers in 1904 in three small rooms with cellars in Fiskergyde in Aarhus. Both Fog and Mørup were then 24 years old.
In 1906 Fog & Mørup moved to Copenhagen and began to specialise in lighting,
In 1915 they opened their first lighting factory. Rapid expansion of the company over the next two decades, together with the takeover of several other lighting companies, required the factory to move to larger premises more than once.
It was in the early 1960s that Fog & Morup really emerged as a significant force in lighting design, following the company’s appointment in 1957 of Johannes Hammerborg as head of design, which initiated what was to prove the most creative and commercially successful period in its history.
Hammerborg’s sleek and innovative modernist designs became the trademark style of Fog & Morup throughout the 60s and into the 70s, and propelled the company into the forefront of Danish modern lighting.
The company’s belief that ‘presented with a challenge, designers as individuals or in design groups will achieve their finest work’ enabled them to attract many talented architects and designers to work under Hammerborg’s exacting eye, including Sophus Frandsen, Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup, Jørgen Bo, E Balslev, Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen, Sidse Werner, Hans Due and Peter Avondoglio.
This lamp dates from the pre second world war aera.
The lamp parts are made of metal (no rust) either chromed or painted.
Height = 41 cm (16.14 inch)
D lamp shade = 31 cm (12.2 inch)
D base = 13 cm (5.11 inch)
weight = 1800 gram
Wire length = 120 cm (47.2 inch)
E27 bakelite lamp holder and bakelite plug. New wiring.
The lamp is safe but does not meet today’s safety requirements.
The lamp has been thoroughly cleaned and checked.
Very nice vintage condition consistent with age and normal use.
Please look at the pictures and judge for your self.