Bergboms Biography
Bergboms, also known as Bergbom & Co AB, was a Swedish modernist lighting manufacturing company founded in 1940. The company's founder, Efraim Ljung, was an influential businessman who had also founded Ljungs Industrier, the company's forerunner of DUX furniture, for which important designers such as Alf Svensson and Edward Wormley had contributed designs. Active in the post-World War II period, Bergboms made a variety of elegant modernist lights aimed at the Swedish market. Bergboms' lighting designs include table, desk, wall and floor lamps, as well as pendants and chandeliers, made in a range of materials from brass and steel to ceramic and glass. While many of these models on the vintage market today do not carry designer attribution, there are a few notable exceptions. For example, the Swedish pendants and Alf Svensson's opaline glass pendants (both dating from the 1950s), made during the period when Svensson was also collaborating with DUX and Fritz Hansen. Other series of particular note include the glazed ceramic table lamps by Aldo Londi (circa 1960 and 1970), produced on behalf of Bergboms by the Bitossi factory in Londi; and Greta Magnusson Grossman's acclaimed G33 Gräshoppa lamp (circa 1947), one of the most coveted modernist lighting designs of the last century.
