{"id":3343,"date":"2021-12-25T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/product\/timor-69-table-or-desk-lamp-louis-kalff\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:05:23","slug":"philips-timor-69-design-louis-kalff","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/product\/philips-timor-69-design-louis-kalff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Timor 69&#8221; table or desk lamp (Louis Kalff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Design: Louis Kalff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Wikipedia<\/em><br \/>\nLouis Christiaan Kalff (Amsterdam, November 14, 1897 \u2013 Waalre, September 16, 1976) was a Dutch graphic designer. His father was editor-in-chief of the newspaper &#8220;Algemeen Handelsblad&#8221;. Ingesproken tekst vertalen volume_up 154 \/ 5.000 Vertaalresultaten After an HBS education, Kalff studied at the Applied Arts School Quellinus Amsterdam (now the Rietveld Academy) and at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft.<\/p>\n<p>Ingesproken tekst vertalen volume_up 167 \/ 5.000 Vertaalresultaten Between 1925 and 1926, Louis Kalff, together with Jan Hanrath, designed the building of the Delft Student Rowing Club &#8220;Laga&#8221; in the style of the Amsterdam School.<\/p>\n<p>In 1925 Louis Kalff started working at the advertising department of Philips in Eindhoven. Under his leadership, the Lighting Consultancy departement (LIBU) was founded in 1929. He participated in the world exhibitions in Barcelona, Antwerp, Brussels and Paris. Kalff was the designer of the Philips logo. In addition, he designed posters and advertising materials as a freelancer for the Holland America line, Calv\u00e9, Zeebad Scheveningen, and Holland Radio. He also designed book bindings.<\/p>\n<p>At Philips, Kalff also worked as an architect on objects such as: the Dr. A.F. Philips Observatory (1937) in Eindhoven, the Diamant Drilling Company (1948) in Valkenswaard and a few country houses in Eindhoven and Waalre for directors of Philips. <\/p>\n<p>After the Second World War, Kalff was actively involved in industrial design at Philips After his retirement in 1960, Louis Kalff remained at Philips as a consultant and architect. In 1961 he managed the construction of the Evoluon building. It was the last work of the light architect who took care of the advertising of the Philips group for almost forty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This design classic <strong>&#8220;Timor 69&#8221;<\/strong> table or desk lamp was designed in the 1950s by the famous architect and designer <strong>Louis Kalff<\/strong> and is produced by <strong>Philips<\/strong>. The lamp is made of brass and is one of Kalff&#8217;s UFO-shaped lamps.<br \/>\nPhilips label present on the base.<\/p>\n<p>The lamp is in excellent vintage condition and shows normal signs of use according to its age (see photos).<\/p>\n<section class=\"_2h_HC\">\n<div class=\"_1FTz3 fggS- cell\">\n<section class=\"_2RbVQ\" data-hook=\"description-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"_3nbVj\">\n<div class=\"_3cRjW\" data-hook=\"content-wrapper\">\n<p>Estimated period: Design 1950s, production 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Colour: black<br \/>\nDiameter: 40cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3268,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[202,205,90],"product_tag":[82,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-3343","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-desk-lamps","7":"product_cat-table-lamps","8":"product_cat-mid-century-modern-en","9":"product_tag-louis-kalff-en","10":"product_tag-philips-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sold-individually","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3343\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagehulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}