Origo candlestick by Anders Pehrson for Ateljé Lantern, Sweden I Candle Holder I Brass and glass

Candlestick model Origo by Anders Pehrson for Ateljé Lantern, Sweden I Candle Holder I Brass and glass

Candlesticks Model Origo Designed By Anders Pehrson. Produced by Ateljé Lantan in Åhus, Sweden.

Weight 883 g / per piece
Price per piece
height 29 cm
Width 13 cm

Condition: good used condition

Anders Pehrson
Swedish designer K. Anders Pehrson was born in Gothenburg in 1912. He studied engineering in his hometown and began working as a design manager at Philips in 1952—a position he held until 1963.

In 1964, Pehrson became owner, operations manager, and artistic director of the Åhus-based lighting manufacturer Ateljé Lyktan. Following Ateljé Lyktan's founder, Hans Bergström, Pehrson focused on workplace lighting and sought to improve lighting conditions in public and industrial environments with his designs. Unlike his predecessor, Bergström, Pehrson championed a more industrial and larger-scale approach to design, moving the company away from customized services and toward mass production. He believed that "good lighting doesn't mean a lot of light, but many light sources." This design philosophy not only resulted in an increasing number of designs; it also led to the creation of entire lighting collections, known as "families," which encouraged customers to collect the entire series.

Pehrson designed the classic Bumling ceiling pendant lamp (1968) for Ateljé Lyktan. Bumling, which means "boulder" in Swedish, was first exhibited at a lighting fair in Gothenburg. The bulbous lamp was over half a meter wide and bright green. Originally produced as a family of six different sizes and a wide range of colors, the lamp became an instant success, both in Sweden and internationally. Demand was so high that Ateljé Lyktan had to subcontract the production of additional lamps. In 1970, following a lighting exhibition in Copenhagen, Pehrson was asked to present a lighting concept for the Munich Olympic Games. Pehrson developed an interior lighting concept based on the 591 Simris table lamp and the 781 Simris floor lamp (both 1964). In 1972, Ateljé Lyktan delivered 16,300 lamps to the Olympic Village in Munich, the largest order in the company's history. In 1974, Pehrson sold Ateljé Lyktan to the Swedish company Fagerhult, but remained managing director, artistic director, and sales director throughout the 1970s.

During his time at Ateljé Lyktan, Pehrson designed many lamps, including Simris (1964), Rampling (1966), Supertube (1967), Fungus (1969), Crystal (1970), Knubbling (1971), Tube (1973), Sovo (1978), and others. Pehrson died in 1982.