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Product description
Height: 20 centimeters, Width: 40 centimeters, Depth: 40 centimeters
The Nova Pendant is one of the most instantly recognizable modernist lighting pieces, designed in 1963 by Johannes “Jo” Hammerborg, then head of design at Danish lighting manufacturer Fog & Mørup. One in a series of streamlined, refined lighting pieces produced by Fog & Mørup and driven by Hammerborg’s creative vision in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Nova Lamp stands out for its simple, dynamic form of three angled, graduating tiers in copper, brass, or aluminum. The piece epitomizes 1960s modernist optimism, reflecting a postwar fascination with the burgeoning space age.
Lamp is in excellent condition, E27 Socket, max 100W
About Hammerborg
Jo (Johannes) Hammerborg was born on 4 February 1920 in Randers, Denmark. After completing high school education he trained as a silversmith from 1942 to 1943, and in 1944 enrolled at Copenhagen’s Kunstakademiet, the prestigious Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1949 he began work as a silversmith at Georg Jensen, where he remained for the next eight years.
In 1957 Hammerborg became head of design at Danish lighting producer Fog & Mørup. His time in this role was to prove the most successful period in the company’s 80-year history both artistically and commercially as he completely redefined the F&M brand with a new modernist aesthetic, imposed a consistent branding style and introduced stringent quality standards for the company’s output. From the smallest components making up the lamps to their labelling, packaging, advertising and showroom display, every facet of the business came under Hammerborg’s exacting eye for form and detail.
Hammerborg was also a prolific designer, and the first six years of his 23-year reign at Fog & Mørup were the most creative of his career. In this period, from 1957 to 1963, he put into production 24 of the approximately 60 lights he would eventually design for the company.
The single most important influence on Hammerborg’s designs came from his training as a silversmith and his exposure to the work of designers such as Henning Koppel at Georg Jensen. This is what sets Hammerborg apart from other Danish lighting designers of the period, nearly all of whom came to lighting design from a background in architecture. Hammerborg's silversmith's eye and sensibility shines out in every lamp he designed – in the understated organic beauty of his forms, in his exceptional attention to detail, in his use of the highest-quality materials and finishes, in the simplicity of his constructions and his minimising of functional elements such as studs, joints, switches, and in the way he understood that barely visible and even concealed details influence the overall design aesthetic.
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsSilverMaterialAluminiumNumber of items1StyleVintageBrandFog & MørupHeight20 cmWidth40 cmDepth40 cm