20th Century Clear Swedish Orrefors Cut Glass Table, Desk Lamp By Carl Fagerlund

A vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish table lamp with a white shade, made of hand blown Orrefors, cut glass featuring a one light socket in good condition. The Scandinavian desk light was designed by Carl Fagerlund and produced by Orrefors. Signed on the bottom. The wires have been renewed. Wear consistent with age and use. Circa 1950, Sweden, Scandinavia.Measures: base: 12" H x 3.75" W x 3.75" D.shade: 9.25" H x 13" W x 8" D.Carl Fagerlund was a Swedish designer born in 1915, in Kalmar, Sweden and passed in 2011. He studied and trained in Stockholm and later went to work for Swedish glassworks company, Orrefors. He designed dazzling lighting and lamps. Today, Fagerlund’s work continues to be highly inquired.Kosta Glasbruk, later known as Kosta Boda was a Swedish glasswork founded by two officers, Anders and Georg Bogislaus Stael von Holstein, in 1792. At the beginning they produced window glasses, chandeliers and drinking glasses. Since 1898, art and crystal glass has been produced under the brand of Orrefors. In 1950, the Swedish designer Vicke Lindstrand joined Kosta Glasbruck as an artistic director.