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'Modern Art' table lamp, model no. 44-405, designed 1955, produced 1960-1980

'Modern Art' table lamp, model no. 44-405, designed 1955, produced 1960-1980
Acrylic.
40 cm high, 28.5 cm diameter
Manufactured by Stockmann Orno, Kerava, Finland.

Provenance
Private collection, Finland
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Finsk Konst Industri, Helsinki, 1962, p. 40
'Valaisimia lampor 64', Stockmann Orno, Kereva, 1964, p. 94
Stockmann-Orno, Kerava, 1966, n.p.
Marianne Aav and Kaj Kalin, Form Finland, exh. cat, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, 1986, fig. 47
Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities: 1930-1997, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, 1998, p. 313
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 1000 Lights, Vol. 1: 1879 to 1959, Cologne, 2005, p. 511
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, scandinavian design, Cologne, 2002, p. 471
Charlotte & Peter Fiell, Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design, London, 2009, p. 84
Pekka Korvenmaa, Finnish Design: A Concise History, Helsinki, 2010, p. 265