Photo: Northern Lighting
Photo: Northern Lighting
Photo: Northern Lighting
Photo: e-mag DECO
Dokka is now manufactured by Northern Lighting and is available to buy in the UK at Holloways of Ludlow.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Birger Dahl - Rediscovered
In my search for hallway lighting I also remembered a quietly elegant number which I had glimpsed in the Norwegian press last year. It is one of two lamps designed by interior-architect and industrial designer Birger Dahl in the 1950's. Dahl was a representative of 'Scandinavian Design' , a Nordic modernist ethos where design focused on the needs of ordinary people instead of a small moneyed elite. Dahl's two best known lamp designs, 'Dokka' ('the doll') and 'Jenta' ('the girl') were exhibited at the large travelling exhibition 'Design in Scandinavia' which toured the US and Canada in 1954-57 and which was pivotal in introducing Scandinavian/Nordic design to North America. 'Dokka' was awarded the golden medal at the Milan Triennale 1954.
Dokka is now manufactured by Northern Lighting and is available to buy in the UK at Holloways of Ludlow.
Dokka is now manufactured by Northern Lighting and is available to buy in the UK at Holloways of Ludlow.
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