About this product

Jo Hammerborg (* 1920, † 1982) 
was a Danish industrial designer who became known for the lighting fixtures 
he designed between 1957 and 1980 for the lighting manufacturer Fog & Mørup 
in Scandinavian

Jo Hammerborg grew up in a middle-class family on the outskirts of the Danish 
port city of Randers. He was trained as a silversmith. Between 1940 and 1945 
he was active in the Danish resistance as a saboteur against the German 
occupation forces in World War II. After that, Hammerborg studied at the 
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked as a silversmith for Georg Jensen.

In 1957 the Danish lighting manufacturer Fog & Mørup hired him as chief 
designer, where he worked until 1980. Under Hammerborg's leadership, 
the company experienced its most creative and commercially successful period, 
to which he contributed with over 180 different lamp designs. 
Some of his designs have received international awards. Fog & Mørup went 
through a series of mergers in 1980 and ceased production in the late 1990s.

Hammerborg was also a versatile athlete, aviator and parachutist. In 1982 he 
died in a parachute jump.

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