Set Swedish Wall Lights in Brass

by Ateljé Lyktan.

A nice asymatric shape, with gas-wire shade, in gold brass colour.

Ateljé Lyktan 1934. It was in a Copenhagen milk bar that a newly graduated arts student and his girlfriend decided on a name for their new business. Swedes Hans Bergström from Karlshamn and Verna Norell with roots in Åhus had acquired premises in Helsingborg's craftsman's quarter. The idea was to make lamps and weave rugs. At the end of the vast flat lands of southern Sweden, at the edge of the Baltic Sea, lies the small town of Åhus. This is the setting for Ateljé Lyktan, a lighting manufacturer with an 90-year long history and an archive of lights that have defined Swedish design over the last century. But Ateljé Lyktan is not resting on its laurels. It is busy creating the next generation of lighting.

The year before the end of the war, ateljé Lyktan expanded by taking on extra sewing staff and metal workers. The first workshop had become too small for the growing flock of employees and a dozen sewers moved into the old station building ”Gärdskan”. Once World War II was over, Lyktan started exporting luminaires outside the country’s borders. By 1946 ateljé Lyktan had distributors as far away as South Africa.

In the later years of the decade, the company expanded further and Hans’s lamps spread throughout the country. Wealthy homes and public environments would be the main takers for his creations in glass and brass. With the approach of the hopeful fifties, innovations begin to occur on the materials side as well. Plastic from the land of the future, America, made it possible for ordinary men and women to afford the white lights of Åhus in their own homes.

Made by Ateljé Lyktan,

in Sweden 1990’s

Materials Brass and metal

Price : €750 for the set

Dimensions shade W.20, D.10, H.27 cm,