Pendant light "Hercules" by Jo Hammerborg for Fog & Mørup. Denmark 1970s

The Hercules was designed in the mid 1970s by fog & mørup's head of design jo hammerborg and is a substantial and solidly made lamp offering good room illumination as well as an anti-dazzle work light. This light was made in a variation of colors this being the all golden version.it comes with its original spiral rise and fall suspension incorporating a polished solid brass clevis. Good condition with a few marks and scratches as seen in the photos. Standard e27 light bulb socket. Johannes (jo) hammerborg grew up right outside of randers, in a regular middle-class family. He trained as a silversmith, participated in denmark’s resistance and struggle for freedom in 1940-45 as a saboteur, studied at the royal danish academy of fine arts and worked as a silversmith at georg jensen. In 1957, he was hired as a chief designer at the lamp manufacturer fog & mørup, where he worked until 1980. And now, decades later, his coveted lamps are in high demand, and they are being sold in antique shops.