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Abo Randers picture light used as a prop in the 2017 film The Snowman

Abo Randers Picture Light

Materials: Brass slat. Tubular brass lampshade. Some plastic and metal parts. Bakelite E14 socket.

Height: 20 cm / 7.87”

Width: 18 cm / 7.08”

Electricity: 1 bulb E14, 1 x 40 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Not any type of light bulb can be used, a long small bulb is required. A E14/SES picture light bulb with a long filament is ideal. 

Period: 1970s, 1980s – Mid-Century Modern.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Abo Randers A/S, Aalestrup, Denmark.

Other versions: This Abo Randers picture light was probably also made in chrome.

Lamps like these were made for highlighting paintings or art or used as desk-reading lamps. It has small holes in the bar to attach to a frame with little screws.

These lamps were also sold by IKEA, as some other lamps made by Abo Randers. It was named TID. They appear in catalogues from the 70s.

Abo Randers A/S

Abo Randers A/S was a lighting company from Aalestrup, near Randers, in Denmark. Founded in the late 60s and mainly based on one product idea, the Ball magnet wall or table lamp (see picture), designed by Benny Frandsen. During the 70s the company expanded their production line with a many other lights, like this one. Somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, ABO Randers was bought by Lyskær Belysning.

Lyskær Belysning was incorporated into Horn Belysning A/S of Aalstrup in 1991, which was itself taken over in 2005 by Nordlux of Ålborg and at a large extent dismantled.

For several lamps Abo Randers used parts of OMI, Otto Meinzer GmbH, a German joint producer. More info over here.

Abo Randers picture light – 1976 IKEA catalogue picture

Abo Randers Picture Light - 1976 IKEA Catalogue Picture