BEGA mushroom garden lamps – Version with a long base – model 9320
iF Design Award 1974 – Bega 9321
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Received awards by BEGA on the BEGA website
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BEGA Mushroom Garden Lamps
Materials: Dark yellow painted aluminium, opal acrylic plastic diffuser. Metal and porcelain sockets.
Height: 65 cm / 25.59”
Width: ∅ 40 cm / 15.74”
Base: ∅ 15 cm / 5.90”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: BEGA Gantenbrink-Leuchten KG, Menden, Germany.
Other versions: Also made with a longer base and in different colours. Models: 9011 (this one), 9320, 3921 (as the black ones on the left), 9520 (HQ lamp)
BEGA
The BEGA company was founded in September 1945, at the end of the Second World War and started as a small business with 5 employees. BEGA received the “Medaille d’Or” at the international trade fair in Luxembourg in 1952. In 1958, BEGA construct the new multi-storey luminaire block with a few other companies at the largest industrial fair in the world in Hanover: an important and courageous step which finally leads to the “World Light Show“. The complete history of the Bega company can be found on their website.
The company still exists and they make beautiful (industrial) lighting.
Glashütte Limburg is a member of the BEGA group.
These 12 garden lamps came out of a library in Belgium where they were used inside the building.
The pendant lamps from Francesconi, painted in the same colour (info below) came out of the same building.
Francesconi Fratelli Pendant Lamps
Materials: Dark yellow painted aluminium mushroom style half round lampshades. Stainless steel rod.
Height: 105 cm / 41”
Width: ∅ 61 cm / 24”
Electricity: 3 bulbs E27, 3 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: Francesco Buzzi Ceriani – attributed.
Manufacturer: Francesconi Fratelli, Roncadelle, Italy.
Tube: 73 cm, 3 lamps adjustable , (73 cm x 2) 29” (29 x 2)
Label Francesconi present.
Bega 9011, 9320, 9250 in the 1974 catalogue
Many thanks to Eric for the beautiful photos.