IKEA Remi floor lamp – Funka version – 1976 catalogue
Desk lamp with the same black plastic diffuser
IKEA Remi Floor Lamp
Materials: Green metallic painted round iron base and rod. Green metallic painted round perforated lampshade. Painted white on the inside. Black plastic flexible tube & parts. Iron gooseneck inside. Switch on top. Bakelite E27 socket.
Lampshade: ∅ 17 x 15 cm / 19.68 x 5.90”
Height: 130 cm / 51.18”
Width: 50 cm / 19.68”
Base: ∅ 25 cm / 9.84”
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, 1990s.
Designer: Uno Dhalén.
Manufacturer: IKEA, Delft, The Netherlands.
Other versions: This IKEA Remi floor lamp exists in many colours. It was also produced as a table lamp and clamp lamp.
This floor lamp appears for the first time in a 1976 IKEA catalogue in a slight different version. It was named Funka. The rod was made in 2 parts.
These lamps were sold by Alda from Sweden.
Uno Dahlén
Unfortunately no information can be found about a designer whit that name. 2 writers with the same name, one born in 1941 and the other (Uno Dalén) in 1920 and deceased in 2006. Dalén and Dahlén are both names used in Sweden.
IKEA
IKEA, formerly known by its full initials, Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, is a multinational group, headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands. The company was founded in Älmhult, Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad (30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018).
The first real shop in Sweden opened in 1958. In 1963 and 1969 the first shops opened in Norway and Denmark. In 1973 Switzerland, Germany and Japan. Other countries followed rapidly. In the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg) the first shops started business in 1978 (Sliedrecht, The Netherlands) and in 1984 in Zaventem and Ternat (Belgium).
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IKEA Remi Floor Lamp – IKEA 1987 Catalogue Picture – Design: Uno Dhalén
Here together with the Brutto floor lamp. It was made by Abo Randers from Denmark. You can find this floor lamp over here.
