BELLEVUE AJ2 by Arne Jacobsen Materials: Lacquered aluminium shade with steel frame and 3 meter fabric cord Dimensions: Base: Ø: 273 mm. Lamp: D: 600 x H: 1120 mm Colours: White, Matt Black Light Source: 1x E27 max.60 W or 12 W low energy bulb Design Date: 1929 1120 andtradition.com 600 273

Arne Jacobsen designed the Bellevue lamp Tradition: It was a time of enlightenment. A time for a fresh view on human life, a breakthrough for functionalism. It was 1929. This was also the year of the Wall Street crash. But it was not all dark. Crisis tends to enhance creativity and in the world of architecture and design, minds were set free. The superfluous, the unnecessary, was sliced off and simplistic and industrial solutions were found and developed. The focus was now on what was rational and functional for the free human being. Arne Jacobsen made his breakthrough that year. Barely out of...