FabrikantSwedish
Bergboms
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For three decades, Bergboms quietly illuminated the Swedish modern home. Founded in Malmö in 1940 by Efraim Ljung, a business figure who also established Ljungs Industrier (the precursor to the furniture company DUX), Bergbom and Co AB built a reputation on clean-lined, directional lighting that matched the spare elegance of mid-century Scandinavian interiors. The company never sought the public profile of a design brand; it operated as a manufacturer, producing both its own designs and commissioned work from some of the era's most gifted designers. That quiet approach meant that for years Bergboms lamps sat in Swedish homes without their maker being widely recognised, a situation the secondary market has thoroughly corrected.
The most famous design to carry the Bergboms name is Greta Magnusson Grossman's G-33 floor lamp, known as the "Gräshoppa" (Grasshopper). Designed around 1947 while Grossman was still in Sweden, the lamp features a backwards-tilted tripod base and an elongated bullet-shaped shade on an articulating stem, allowing users to direct light without creating harsh spotlighting. Its silhouette is instantly recognisable and has become one of the defining objects of Scandinavian modernist lighting. A version was later produced in the United States by Ralph O. Smith under the name "The Grasshopper," though with different colour options than the Swedish originals.
Bergboms's range extended well beyond a single signature piece. The company produced table lamps, desk lamps, wall lights, pendants, and chandeliers in materials ranging from brass and lacquered steel to ceramic and opaline glass. Alf Svensson, who simultaneously designed furniture for DUX and Fritz Hansen, contributed pendant designs with opaline glass shades that exemplified the soft, diffused light Scandinavians favoured. The company also maintained an important collaboration with the Italian ceramics firm Bitossi. Aldo Londi's textured ceramic lamp bases, with their distinctive "birch bark" finishes and carved floral motifs, were produced by Bitossi specifically for Bergboms and imported to Sweden, creating a distinctive Italian-Scandinavian hybrid that collectors prize.
The G-31 floor lamp in brass, with its articulating arm and adjustable shade, represents another highly sought model from Bergboms's catalogue. The company's TR-67 ceiling lamp in plastic and brass demonstrates the range of materials and price points Bergboms covered, from affordable modern lighting to statement brass pieces.
At auction, Bergboms lighting appears across major Swedish houses including Bukowskis, Stockholms Auktionsverk, Formstad Auktioner, and Skånes Auktionsverk. The G-31 brass floor lamp leads prices at around 11,500 SEK, while the Bitossi ceramic table lamp pairs are particularly sought after, reaching 4,500 to 5,000 SEK. With nearly 200 items on Auctionist spanning table lamps, floor lamps, wall lights, and ceiling fixtures, Bergboms represents one of the most consistently traded Swedish lighting brands on the secondary market, with demand driven by the growing collector appreciation for anonymous mid-century Scandinavian design.