Balance C1550 wall lamp in gold colour by Bertrand Balas for Raak
Balance C1550 wall lamp in gold colour by Bertrand Balas for Raak
Gold coloured metal shapes. Good vintage condition.
This wall lamp is designed by Bertrand Balas and manufactured by Raak in the Netherlands in the 1960s. The model is known as Balance C1550. The scone has a gold coloured metal leaf shape with a granulated structure. You can hang it in both directions: with the opening up or down. In our pictures the opening is up.
Bertrand Balas (born 1935 in Toulouse, France) is a French architect and designer who started his professional life in 1962 as an independent. It was in 1965 during a trip that this designer came into contact with Raak, a company that was very fundamental to the development of his product design skills. Balas gave shape to ‘the French style’ within the Raak collection.
We have cleaned the lamps in our professional workshop. You can choose the bulb - standard size E27. There is a Raak logo inside the lamp. One of the two lamps has a bent corner.
dimensions:
height: 40 cm
width: 20 cm
depth: 14 cm
About Raak:
Raak was an Amsterdam lamp factory, founded in 1954 by Carel O. Lockhorn, who used to work for the lighting division of Philips. Raak also had a branch in Eindhoven. The caption on its labels said Light Architecture, which pointed out that their lamps need to be seen as extensive and supporting elements of architecture and interior design. The company manufactured many lights for public and government buildings as well as for home use. A large and international group of architects, industrial designers, electrical engineers and decorators contributed to the refined minimalist aesthetic of Raak’s light objects (E.J. Jelles, Maija Liisa Komulainen, Frank Ligtelijn, Nanny Still, Nico Kooy, Sergio Asti, e.a.). Frank Ligtelijn's Globe 2000 (also called Raak 2000), a floor lamp manufactured in 1961, really set the tone for the company's characteristic style: a sophisticated design, durable and beautifully finished materials and a name that excites the imagination.
