Brutalist Modern Copper Tiered Pendant, 1960s - Two Items

Danish midcentury brutalist brass pendant made of twelve plates of flame cut and acid treated brass in two layers designed and handmade in the 1960s by Svend Aage Holm Sørensen for h...

Rustic midcentury modern brutalist 1960s Finnish/Dutch ceiling patinated copper pendant. Thick textured amber glass cone covered with blackened copper that gives way to fourteen larg...

Bell shaped handmade Danish midcentury modern ceramic pendant from the 1960s. Turquoise, dark green, warm browns and earthy colored running shiny glaze with beautiful organic cutouts...

Romantic nordic allmoge style ceiling light. Danish midcentury modern handmade stoneware pendant with warm grey glaze over handpainted navy and light blue flowers, leaves and delicat...

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...

Rare Danish Mid-Century Modern Brutalist pendant by Holm Sørensen.

This Brutalist pendant lamp is a production by Thea Metal from Denmark. The design is by Svend Aage Holm Sorensen or inspired on designs by him. The 'onion'...

Elegant Danish mid century modern copper pendant lamp on an aluminium frame. Manufactured in Denmark in the 1960s. Measures: diamet...