20th Century Tulip Brass Brutalist Lamp

Swedish Mid-Century Ceiling Pendant Lamp. This Brass and Glass Light Fixture features 10 cylinder shaped shades with crystallized glass and brass fittings. This vintage lamp is desig...

Large Industrial era ceiling pendant fixtures. The 3 fixtures are thick glass with iron cast shades by Appleton Electric. These pendants are an excellent addition to any Industrial h...

Large Murano Mazzega glass globe ceiling lamp, 1960s, Italy.

Mid-Century Modern Italian ceiling fixture chandelier wood and brushed chrome globes. Small Italian three-globe light fixture. The wooden frame with brushed chrome globes is an excel...

20th century gilded crystal brass chandelier by the German manufacturer Palwa. A masterpiece of artful German craftsmanship suitable as dining room pendant, bedroom pendant...

Danish designer Svend Aage Holm Sørensen (1913-2004) is known for his self-produced lighting designs dating from the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Despite the desirability of his designs on the vintage market, there is a lack of biographical information on the designer and his eponymous manufacturing company. The Danish designer Svend Aage Holm-Sørensen (1913-2004) possessed an artist eye and a very good understanding of the potential of materials, and he understood how to innovate with these. To this day, Holm-Sørensen's style as a designer addresses not only the Nordic market, but also the international interest in the designer's distinctive and experimental expression. Sven Aage was known for being able to draw sketches on almost everything: envelopes, theater programs, even tram tickets he used to sketch his vision. It is speculated that Holm Sørensen designed lights for well-known Danish lighting manufacturers Fog & Mørup and Lyfa in the 1950s, before establishing his own lighting company, Holm Sørensen A/S to produce and distribute his own designs. Holm Sørensen’s style varies greatly, with designs from the 1950s truly reflecting the mid-century modern lighting style, with clear influences from the De Stijl and Bauhaus movements. His attenuated floor and table lamps contain the classic tri-pod base that was popular at the time, referencing such designs as H. Th. J. A. Busquet’s Pinocchio Lamp (1954). From the 1960s onwards, Holm Sørensen’s style changed utterly. His designs diverged from colorful, geometric table lamps and floor lamps, to pendants with raw finished brass and copper surfaces. These pendant lamps showcase Holm Sørensen’s interpretation of the Brutalist style, which was popular from the 1950s to the mid-70s. Originally coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund...

Industrial billiard lamps in green enameled metal, early 1900s. USA 1900 ca.  

Danish Mid Century Modern Brutalist pendant consisting of three panels of acid treated and torch cut brass, Holm Sørensen's signature processing method to accentuate the nuances and ...