Design Icons through time Design Icons through time Greta Grossman Mathieu Matégot Robert Dudley Best Jacques Adnet Barba Corsini & Joaquim Ruiz Millet Gubi Olsen Komplot Design GamFratesi Jens Quistgaard Bonderup & Thorup Henning Larsen Architects Paul Leroy A Celebration of Design

through time Design Icons A celebration of design

Foreword Vision, determination and courage are essential ingredients in Gubi’s success. Established more than forty years ago, the Gubi family has now re-established a creative platform for the development of innovative, functional design with global market appeal. This did not happen without making strategic changes to the economic structure of the company but the ability to create new concepts and the courage to swim against the tide has brought Gubi back to the forefront of the Danish design world. With this new foundation firmly in place, strategy is now focused on the development of unique...

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12 // The Grossman Collection // Grasshopper Floor Lamp

13 // The Grossman Collection // Grasshopper Floor Lamp

The Bestlite Collection Designed by Robert Dudley Best Bestlite has been in continuous production since 1930. Winston Churchill is numbered amongst its many famous users. The Bestlite design was conceived by Robert Dudley Best who was highly influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus, the German school that merged practical crafts with fine arts, had profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design and industrial design and Bauhaus style became one of the most influential forces behind Modernist architecture and modern design. Eighty years...

Photos from the old production halls in England 15 // The Bestlite Collection // About robert dudley best

16 // The Bestlite Collection // Bl1 table lamp in black

BL2 Table lamp 17 // The Bestlite Collection // BL2 table lamp in black

BL3 floor lamp 18 // The Bestlite Collection // BL3 floor lamp in black

19 // The Bestlite Collection // BL3 original floor lamp in white

BL3 floor lamp 20 // The Bestlite Collection // BL3 original floor lamp in black

21 // The Bestlite Collection // BL4 floor lamp in black

22 // The Bestlite Collection // BL6 wall lamp in black

BL6 wall lamp 23 // The Bestlite Collection // BL6 wall lamp in black

BL5 wall lamp 24 // The Bestlite Collection // BL5 wall lamp in black

25 // The Bestlite Collection // BL5 wall lamp in black

26 // The Bestlite Collection // BL7 wall lamp in black

BL10 wall lamp 27 // The Bestlite Collection // BL10 wall lamp in black

28 // The Bestlite Collection // BL9 M pendant in black

BL9 XL pendant 29 // The Bestlite Collection // BL9 Xl pendant in black

The Grossman Collection Designed by Greta Grossman The most iconic products Greta Grossman designed in the 40’s and 50’s were the Gräshoppa floor lamp and the Cobra floor and table lamps. In 1950, the Cobra lamp won the Good Design Award and was subsequently exhibited at the Good Design Show at the Museum of Modern Art. Grossman was highly influenced by European Modernism, which had been imported to the US by influencial architects, such as Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Grossman, in turn, played a significant role in defining the aesthetic of mid-century...

Greta Grossman at her house in Los Angeles. 31 // The Grossman Collection // about greta magnusson grossman

Gräshoppa Floor lamp 32 // The Grossman Collection // Gräshoppa Floor Lamp in black

33 // The Grossman Collection // Gräshoppa Floor Lamp in blue grey

34 // The Grossman Collection // Gräshoppa Floor Lamp in vintage red

36 // The Grossman Collection // cobra table Lamp in anthracite grey

Cobra Table lamp 37 // The Grossman Collection // cobra table Lamp in warm grey

Cobra floor lamp 38 // The Grossman Collection // cobra Floor Lamp in anthracite grey

39 // The Grossman Collection // cobra Floor Lamp in warm grey

The Pedrera Collection Designed by Barba Corsini & Joaquim Ruiz Millet Many architects and furniture designers of the Bauhaus era were intent on providing well-designed homes and impeccably manufactured furnishings for the “common man”. in 1955, Barba Corsini, a leading functionalist architect, realised his contemporary vision through his renovation of the loft space and the furnishings he custom designed for “La Pedrera”. Antoni Gaudi, who originally designed “La Pedrera”, is generally considered the great master of Spanish Modernism but his unique body of work cannot be defined by any single...

The Pedrera Lamp was specially made for Antoni Gaudi’s famous house in Barcelona Casa Milá 41 // The Pedrera Collection // about barba corsini & Joaquim Ruiz Millet

abc table lamp 42 // The Pedrera Collection // abc table lamp in black

a Collection // ABC TABLE LAMP IN RED

44 // The Pedrera Collection // h2o table lamp in nickel

H2O Pendant 45 // The Pedrera Collection // H2o pendant in black

46 II The Pedrera Collection // PD2 FLOOR LAMP IN BLACK

Pedrera floor lamp 47 // The Pedrera Collection // Pedrera floor lamp in black

Ana pendant 48 // The Pedrera Collection // ana pendant in black

49 // The Pedrera Collection // ana pendant in white

The Semi Collection Designed by Bonderup & Thorup The Semi lamp was designed in 1968 as a product of the creative partnership between two architecture students, Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup. Reacting against the ‘cosy era’ that was dominating Denmark at the time, Bonderup and Thorup wanted to create a lamp that incorporated sharp, clean lines and a geometric shape. Their design was submitted for a competition at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and won first prize. Semi is a unique pendant lamp, based on two quarter-circles put together, back-to-back. With its...