Ceiling Lamp 2356 Brass

Ceiling Lamp 2356

”The Spider Lamps” is the nickname given to a  series of light fixtures designed by Josef Frank that refers to  ceiling lamp 2356  with six arms,  ceiling lamp 2358  with eight arms, and  ceiling lamp 2353  with three arms. All of them characterised by the naked, visible light bulbs — a nod to the Art Nouveau era and the birth of the electric lamp.

Josef Frank’s Spider lamps

As early as the 1920s, Josef Frank began  designing lamps for his own interior design company Haus und Garten, which he started together with his architect colleague Oskar Wlach.

Ceiling lamp 2356 in Villa Beer, Vienna.

How Josef Frank’s Spider Lamps are made

At Pantarholmen in Karlskrona lies the Karlskrona Lamp Factory, a family-owned business that manufactures fixtures for Svenskt Tenn.

Josef Frank

Austrian designer and architect Josef Frank has had an enormous impact on the history of Swedish design. Despite being nearly 50 years old when emigrating to Sweden, he is now considered one of the country’s most important designers of all time.