Incollect Magazine - Issue 13

Incollect Magazine 93 “Swedish Modernist lighting manufacturer Bergboms & Co. AB was founded in 1940 by businessman Efraim Ljung, who had previously launched DUX Furniture. The full breadth of the firm’s production in the early years is unclear, but it did include a number of lyrical mid-century designs, such as Greta Magnussen-Grossman’s G33 Gräshoppa lamp and sleek metal models by creative director Alf Svensson,” explains James Buresh, gallery director at BAC. “By the 1960s, the firm’s aesthetic represented the best of Swedish minimalism in design, with simple but elegant lamps and other furniture in brass, steel, teak, glass and earthenware. Bergboms also distributed lighting by other manufacturers, most notably Italian firm Bitossi Ceramiche, including many of Aldo Londi’s now classic lamp designs in glazed earthenware. Bergboms & Co’s own designs currently available through BAC on Incollect include a sleek, modern pair of table lamps with slender stands “wrapped in a whiskey-tinted leather, with flaring bases in brass, and cast iron weights for stability, dating from the 1960s,” Buresh explains. Other striking designs by the maker include several pairs of columnar modern minimalist table lamps, one in white-gray marble with carved rings at the base, and a chic pair in polished brass with satin brass base caps. Bergboms & Co. Top left: Pair of table lamps by Bergboms, made of brass and leather, Sweden, 1960s. Courtesy BAC. Top right: Pair of table lamps by Bergboms, with tall, slim cylindrical forms in polished brass, made in Sweden, 1960s. Courtesy BAC. Left: Pair of table lamps by Bergboms, with slender cylindrical forms in white and gray marble, crafted in Italy for retail in Sweden, 1960s. Courtesy BAC.