Fase Style 1980s Desk Lamp

Materials: White painted curved round metal (iron) base. Black plastic lid on the bottom. Some lacquered curved wood rod, boomerang style. White painted round aluminium lampshade, also painted white inside. Nickel-plated knee joint. Bakelite E27 lamp socket.

Height: 34 cm / 13.38”

Width:  30 cm / 11.81”

Base: ∅ 15,6 cm / 6.14”

Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used. Not a specific one preferred. 

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

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: Fischer Leuchten, Sundern, Germany.

Other versions: This Fase Style 1980s desk lamp exists in several colours. Several variations of this lamp were made. It also exists with a long chrome rod and another lampshade.

This desk lamp was made by the German company Fischer Leuchten. It was sold by Massive. The 60 watt label is a Fischer Leuchten label.

This lamp has a label of Massive Nederland B.V., the Dutch branch of the Belgian company. It was located in Gorinchem. After the takeover by Philips it was closed permanently.

A rare seen lamp, made in the style of the famous lamps produced by the Spanish company Fase from Madrid. Fase produced several lamps with metal combined with wood such as the “President” desk lamp. All of course with a very striking UFO lampshade, what this lamp unfortunately does not have. Other Spanish companies that produced similar lamps were Gei, Metalarte and Lupela, to name the most important.

Fischer Leuchten

Fischer Leuchten was founded in 1951 by Aloys Fischer in Sundern, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Johannes Schulte joined the company as a full partner in 1953. In 1972 the enterprise moved to another building in the same town. In 1993 Johannes Schulte junior and in 1995 Alois Fischer junior joined the company. Today the firm is located in Arnsberg, some 15 km (9 miles) from Sundern. The company merged with Honsel Leuchten to form Fischer & Honsel GmbH.

Fisher Leuchten also produced this lamp for other brands, such as IKEA, Veneta Lumi and Massive from Belgium.

Massive

Massive was in origin a bronze foundry and they produced mainly candlesticks, crucifixes and chandeliers in Wilrijk near Antwerp, Belgium. The company was founded in 1926 by Pieter-Jozef De Jaeck. His son Eddy De Jaeck was responsible for the huge expansion of the company in the 1970s. But it were his sons, Piet and Jan De Jaeck who made Massive a true multinational. Thus, they moved production to Eastern Europe and China.

In the 1980s Massive became the leading brand in Europe. In 2002, the brothers left the company to the investment fund CVC Capital Partners, for allegedly more than 250 million euros. 
Since 2008 the company is owned by Philips and the name of the shops is changed into Light Gallery.

When the takeover by Philips was announced in November 2006 Massive commercialised more than 10.000 lighting products under brand names such as Massive, TRIO and Lirio. The group had about 5.000 employees worldwide and was active in 70 countries.

VLM

All the electric parts are made by the VLM Components company from Buccinasco, near Milan. They were produced in the late 1970s, early 1980s.