He recalled, “It was a picture in the New York Times some weeks before which showed Liberty ships being mothballed by having the decks covered with netting and then being sprayed with a self webbing plastic.” Nelson located the manufacturer of this resinous plastic and used it in the making of the bubble lamps. But I wanted one badly,” Nelson wrote in his book, On Design, published in 1979.Ī seemingly unrelated reference soon led to an intuitive idea. “The Swedish design was done in a silk covering that was very difficult to make they had to cut gores and sew them onto a wire frame. Nelson drew from elemental, organic shapes in making variations like the Apple Bubble Pendant, the Pear Wall Sconce, the Lotus Table Lamp, and the Saucer Pendant Lamp, among others.Īn influential designer of mid-century modernism in America, George Nelson came across a set of hanging lamps from Sweden and loved everything about their modern aesthetic, except for their extravagant cost. An ingenious and resourceful designer, he went on to create the first set of Nelson Bubble Lamps using a translucent white plastic spray, a technique developed by the U.S. Nelson was inspired by a set of silk-covered Swedish hanging lamps that he wanted to acquire for his office, but he found the price to be prohibitive. Designed by George Nelson in 1952, these elegant fixtures are fashioned from a sturdy, lightweight steel frame yet have a delicate, floating quality, whether in ceiling-hung, floor, table, or wall-mounted variations. At the same time that it represents a moment of pure revolution from Modernism’s heyday, it also brings a sense of heritage and history that anchors the collection.An assortment of lights in various spherical silhouettes, the Nelson Bubble Lamps add a touch of softness and luminosity to interiors. Bubble Lamps are available from HAY in pendant- and wall-lamp styles.Īs a product that embodies Nelson’s obsession with new materials and technologies, the Bubble Lamp is perfectly at home among HAY’s extensive lighting collection, which features innovative products by some of the world’s most respected contemporary designers. military ships, resulting in a lamp, that is both opaque and transparent as it glows. Each model has a steel-wire skeleton on the interior, which is spray coated with the translucent plastic polymer Nelson first encountered in that 1947 photograph of U.S. The Bubble Lamp is produced in several shapes, including the classic spherical ball shape and an elongated oval shape. military, and applied it over a lightweight, rounded-steel frame to produce these soft, glowing fixtures.Īll Bubble Lamp models are produced in the same American factory that originally developed them in the 1950s.
Employing the resourcefulness that characterised his working process, he decided to use a self-webbing plastic spray developed by the U.S. Available in an assortment of organic sizes and shapes, these elegant orbs were inspired by a set of silk-covered Swedish pendant lamps Nelson wanted for his office, but found to be too expensive.
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George Nelson originally designed the Bubble Lamp series in 1952, inspired by a set of silk-covered Swedish hanging lamps.ĭesigned by pioneering American designer George Nelson in 1947, and first produced in 1952, the Bubble lamp signalled a revolution in the Modernist lighting industry.
It comes with a steel ceiling plate, which allows it to delicately float overhead. The Nelson Saucer Bubble Pendant’s wide surface area diffuses soft light into any interior. In conjunction with HAY’s partnership with Herman Miller, HAY will be the European distributor of George Nelson’s iconic Bubble Lamp, first produced in the 1950s. The Saucer Bubble Pendant Lamp by George Nelson.
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