ateljé Lyktan

A Copenhagen milk bar gave ateljé Lyktan its name in 1934, when Hans Bergström and Verna Norell combined the Swedish words for workshop and lamp and set up in Helsingborg’s craftsmen’s quarter. Two years later the business moved to Verna’s family farm in Åhus, and it has been making luminaires in Sweden ever since.

The catalogue runs from Anders Pehrson’s Bumling and Supertube, the era that put 16,300 lamps into the Munich Olympics in 1972, to today’s Time family begun by Bengt Källgren, Matti Klenell’s Mela and a hemp-fibre Superdupertube developed with Snøhetta. Bespoke work sits with The Studio, an in-house department with more than 80 years of experience that takes projects from prototype to series production for offices, hotels and public buildings.