Gerald Abramovitz
Gerald Abramovitz
(1928-2011)
Cantilever Desk Lamp
Aluminium, anodised aluminium and painted steel
Model 41555 MKII, produced by Best & Lloyd
c. 1961
United Kingdom
Height 51 cm
Width 71 cm
Depth 10 cm
Bibliography
‘Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize for Elegant Design and the Design Centre Awards 1966’, Design Journal, no. 209, May 1966, p. 41
Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George Marcus, Design Since 1945, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983, p. 143
The present model won the Design Centre Award in 1966 and is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Featured in James Bond “You Only Live Twice” 1967
  
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