Fase Boomerang 2000 Desk Lamp – Catalogue 1967
Fase Boomerang 2000 Desk Lamp – Catalogue 1974
Lamps in the movies
La Fôret (2017)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in La Fôret (The Forest) from 2017. A French crime drama television series, created by Delinda Jacobs and directed by Julius Berg.
Atomic Blonde (2017)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in Atomic Blonde (2017), an American action thriller spy film directed by David Leitch.
Links (external links open in a new window)
Guardia Civil – Civil Guard – Wikipedia
From Russia with Love (1963) film – Wikipedia
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) film – Wikipedia
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) film – Wikipedia
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) film – IMDB
La Forêt (2017) TV series – Wikipedia
Atomic Blonde (2017) film – Wikipedia
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) film – Wikipedia
High-Rise (2015) film – Wikipedia
Star Trek (1966) TVseries – Wikipedia
Unité 42 (2017) TV series – Wikipedia
Unité 42 (2017) TV series – IMDb
The Queen’s Gambit (2020) TV series – Wikipedia
The Queen’s Gambit (2020) TV series – IMDb
Las Leyes De La Frontera (2021) film – Wikipedia
Las Leyes De La Frontera (2021) film – IMDb
Vintageinfo
Massive Belgium Fase style lamp
Fase Boomerang 2000 Desk Lamp
Materials: Dark grey painted round metal base. Silver metallic painted curved arm, boomerang style. Silver metallic painted round lampshade. Round glass diffuser underneath the UFO lampshade. Some metal parts. 2 Bakelite E27 sockets.
Height: 40 cm / 15.74”
Lampshade: ∅ 30 cm / 11.81”
Base: ∅ 20 cm / 7.87”
Electricity: 2 bulbs E27, 2 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: Luis Pérez de la Oliva.
Manufacturer: Fase, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.
Other versions: Fase produced many lamps in this style. This Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was made in some varieties and many (metallic) colours. Gold, brown, maroon, ochre, red and so on. The lamp can rotate 360 degrees on the heavy base. Also the lampshade can turn left and right. In 1975 the price for this lamp was +- 16 euro/dollar.
Fase
The Fase company was founded by self-made man Pedro García Martin and designer Luis Pérez de la Oliva.
The Boomerang 64 lamp was one of their first designs in 1964, you find it over here on Vintageinfo. Initially they sold their self-produced lamps to the markets in and around the capital Madrid before successfully opening a factory in Torrejón de Ardoz on the outskirts of the city.
They produced mainly lamps, but also ashtrays and other products such as office bins and coat racks.
Fase supplied many lamps to the offices of General Franco‘s dictatorial government and the Guardia Civil, some sort of military police. From 1975 on, after the death of Franco and the end of the regime, Fase started with Italian Modern and Bauhaus-inspired designs. The Spaniards were unfamiliar with this design because of the Franco regime that ruled the country with an iron fist and allowed few foreign influences.
During the 70s Fase exported lamps to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Norway, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Hong Kong, Morocco, the United States and Canada. In total in more than 32 countries.
The 1980s
In the 1980s Fase jumped on the bandwagon of the halogen lighting. The break with tradition proved unsuccessful and ultimately contributed to the end of the business. A large fine of the Treasury in the early nineties for tax irregularities was the end for Fase. The company was officially dissolved in 1996.
Drowned, the company sold its manufacturing license to a German brand, Ma-Of, which slightly modified the original design by adding more chrome. Before these final death rattles, the partners had already separated. GEI (Gabinete Estudios Industriales – Cabinet Industrial Studies) was another company that sold similar lamps. Also Massive from Belgium produced a few lamps in this style.
When the company stopped producing them abruptly, there was a lot of ‘stock’ available in the warehouses. That’s why you find relatively many lamps with a label attached. Many lamps are sold new and never used in the box (NOS – New Old Stock).
Designers who have worked for the company include: Gabriel Teixidó. He designed the Iberia and Meca series and Tomás Díaz Magro, responsible for the Apolo, Minifase and Impala lamps. The most productive was Luis Pérez de la Oliva, who designed the majority of the Fase lamps.
Fase also sold lamps made by others such as the Yamada Shomei ‘Manon’ table lamp from Japan. You can find it over here on Vintageinfo. The Prisma table lamp was produced in Italy by F.A.A.I. Arredo. Also the Sinus stacking ashtray made by Helit from Germany. A design by Walter Zeischegg from 1967. You can find it here in the MoMA, New York. Fase also sold lamps from other companies.
LUPELA
LUPELA was founded by LUis PErez L’Anzas (acronym of “lupela”). Luis had two sons: Fernando Perez de la Oliva, who later registered the LUPELA trademark, and Luis Pérez de la Oliva, who founded Fase, together with Pedro Martin. Fernando bought the production rights for 5 lamps by designer Jose Luis Gugel Sacha: the Reina, Cobra, Cisne and models 225 and 226. He agreed with his brother Luis that Fase would not produce articulated lamps. They did not keep to the agreement and Fase designed and produced many lamps inspired by LUPELA models.
Lamps in the movies
The Fase lamps were used as a prop in many films. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Mad Man-TV series (2007-2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), Made In Dagenham (2010), Du Jour au Lendemain (2006), La Fôret-TV series (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), many Almodóvar films, and so on.
A similar lamp, produced by the American company Dazor, model 2003, was used as a prop in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia With Love. A year before the Fase company was founded. The James Bond movie was partially filmed in Spain… maybe we know where Fase got its inspiration. Dazor produced several lamps in this style in the 1950s, all with a 2000-number, such as this one.
The starship Enterprise from the Star Trek TV series (1966) has many similarities with the Fase lamps. Was Gene Roddenberry inspired by Fase, Dazor, or is it a coincidence?
Lamps in the movies
From Russia With Love (1963)
A similar desk lamp, the Dazor model 2008, was used as a prop in the James Bond film From Russia With Love from 1963. Starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi and Pedro Armendáriz.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). A biographical film about the British rock band Queen.
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in the in the 2004 French crime film 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu.
The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamps was used as a prop in the 2020 American dramatic television miniseries The Queen’s Gambit. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp and Moses Ingram.
Unit 42 (2017)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in the in the 2017 Belgian television series Unit 42. Starring Patrick Ridremont, Constance Gay and Tom Audenaert. Many other lamps appear in the series.
Las Leyes De La Frontera (2021)
A Fase Boomerang 2000 desk lamp was used as a prop in the 2021 Spanish film Las Leyes De La Frontera (Outlaws). Starring: Chechu Salgado, Begoña Vargas and Marcos Ruiz. Many other (Fase) lamps appear in this film. You can find them over here. In this scene together with 2 Polinax (also Spain) wall lamps. These wall lamps were used in several other scenes. Design: Bohigas, Martorell & Mackay.
Many thanks to Ger for the beautiful pictures and enthusiasm.