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AJ Oxford Table Lamp
Table lamp with a triple-layered opal glass shade and a slim black stem on a circular base
221 × 414 × 221 mm
Approx. $1,100 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
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Description
Overview
The AJ Oxford Table Lamp is Arne Jacobsen's table lamp, produced by Louis Poulsen. The shade is opal glass, the stem and top shade are steel, and the slim stem merges into a circular base.
Construction
- Hand-blown, three-layered white opal glass shade
- Stem and top shade in steel, black wet painted
- Union nut and finger screw in untreated brass with fine clockwise hairlines
- Aluminium mounting device for the pin version
Specifications
- G16.5/candelabra light source, not included; 355 lumen
- Ingress protection IP20
- 7 ft black fabric-covered cord with plug and an on/off switch on the socket house
- Weight 2.2 lbs
Story
Made for a college dining hall
The lamp has a sleek graphic design that reflects the architecture of St Catherine's College in Oxford, for which it was first designed. Arne Jacobsen drew the modernist college, which was inaugurated in 1963 and stands in contrast with the classical architecture around it. The lamp began as a table pin lamp for the dining hall, where long rows of oak tables seat 350 people, and it is still found at the college today.
Light and glass
The lamp gives a pleasant, downwardly directed light that illuminates the surface below it through the soft transparency of its triple-layered, hand-blown opal glass. The stem is slim and merges into the circular base.
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