Anvia Wall Lights and Sconces

Cute Charlotte Perriand style wall sconce by Dutch post-war (and recently revived) lighting manufacturer Anvia. This piece is from the 1960's and features a red enameled metal swivel...

Charlotte Perriand inspired, mid century, baby blue enameled metal wall sconce by Dutch lighting manufacturer Anvia. Two medium sockets with pull string switch and tilting front pane...

Very nice swing arm wall lamp. Black metal shade, comes with Brass arm and other parts of the shade. Nice looking stylish lamp.

Newly re-issued Anvia 'The Paper Clip' wall lamp in yellow with black frame. Has paper clip style arm that swings to extend or retract for versatile use and tilting/rotating shade.

Very nice cubistic pair of sconces designed by Johannes Joseph Maria Hoogervorst for Anvia, the Netherlands, 1960. These wall lamps are made of black and white lacquered metal, beaut...

Hala Zeist red enameled metal table or wall lamp with pinocchio shade. Versatile small lamps that function as both table lamp and wall lamp. Great as bedside lamps. Priced individual...

Newly re-issued Anvia 'The Paper Clip' wall lamp with grey shade and black arm. The paper clip style arm swings to extend or retract for versatile use and tilting/rotating shade.

Newly re-issued Anvia 'The Paper Clip' wall lamp in yellow with black frame. Has paper clip style arm that swings to extend or retract for versatile use and tilting/rotating shade.

Dutch lighting manufacturer Anvia is best known for its masterfully minimal floor, table, and ceiling lamps, especially the brand’s midcentury collaborations with celebrated Dutch designer J.J.M. Hoogervorst. An acronym for Algemeene Nederlandsche Verlichtings Industrie Almelo (Dutch General Lighting Industry Almelo), Anvia was founded in the small Dutch town of Almelo in 1933 by German-born entrepreneur Max Liebert. As a man of Jewish heritage, Liebert was forced to sell his company and relocate to the Netherlands, where he established Anvia as a continuation of his nearly 30-year-old, Berlin-based lighting company Lessmann Moset. In the early years of the company, Anvia was operated by Liebert, his son Werner, and son-in-law Fritz Kaufmann. During the Second World War, Liebert—along with his wife and son—were placed in concentration camps in Sobibor and Auschwitz and executed in 1943. Liebert’s daughter and son-in-law survived by hiding in a neighbor’s house during the war. They began to rebuild Anvia in 1946, after the war ended. In the early-1950s, Dutch industrial designer Jan "J.J.M." Hoogervorst (1918-1982)—who began his career as an illustrator—met and befriended Ilse Liebert. This marked the beginning of a very successful and fruitful partnership. Although Hoogervorst had his own design agency, Interdesign, he began designing for Anvia on a regular basis, creating a new collection each year. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hoogervorst designed many now iconic products, launching himself into international acclaim and establishing Anvia as one of the three largest Dutch lighting companies, alongside Philips in Eindhoven and Hala in Zeist. Hoogervorst’s early designs were influenced by progressive Italian lighting companies like Artemide, Stilnovo, and Arteluce; while his later designers are characterized by a strict, functionalist aesthetic. Iconic Anvia designs by Hoogervorst include the 8025 Floor Lamp (mid-1950s), 6019 Desk Lamp (design date unknown), Grasshopper Floor Lamp (1955), and the Counter Balance Lamp (1957). The company closed production in the mid-1980s. Thirty years later, in 2014, Dutch entrepreneur Michel Klein...

First edition sculptural counter balance ceiling lamp designed by JJM Hoogervorst for Anvia Almelo, Holland, 1957. This amazing lamp has a white lacquered arm and blue lamp shade...

Rietveld style black textured metal shade with copper and brass hardware with an articulating arm, with black metal wall mount. Visible wear and patina consistent with its age and us...

Yellow and copper Rietveld style industrial wall mount lamp with an articulating arm and black metal wall mount. In original condition with visible wear and patina consistent with it...