Iconic Danish furniture and lighting manufacturer Gubi was founded in Copenhagen by designer-couple Lisbeth and Gubi Olsen in 1967. The brand is celebrated globally for its innovative chairs, lighting fixtures, mirrors, sofas and other furnishings and decor.
The company began as a platform to manufacture the textiles and furniture designed by Lisbeth and Gubi. Soon, the business model broadened. While recent contemporary pieces manufactured by Gubi such as GamFratesi’s Beetle chair have become darlings of today’s interiors, the company is also widely known as a leader in reissuing exquisite Scandinavian and other mid-century modern furniture by a range of design legends.
Swedish architect and interior designer Greta Magnusson Grossman — the first woman to receive a prize for furniture design from the Swedish Society of Industrial Design — emigrated to the United States and built 14 homes in Los Angeles in the postwar era that were inspired by the Case Study Houses. She furnished these homes with her own designs, and her impossibly sleek Grasshopper table lamps and floor lamps — created for Barker Bros. but today made by Gubi — were frequent fixtures in the interiors. Another Scandinavian architect and industrial designer, Louis Weisdorf designed the wildly popular Multi-Lite line of lighting fixtures, which were originally created during the early 1970s and reissued by Gubi in 2016.
Beyond lighting, Spanish designer Barbara Corsini created the distinctively geometric Pedrera coffee table during the mid-1950s that is now made by Gubi, while the Hungarian-born French master of postwar design, Mathieu Matégot, created the Tropique dining table and an elegant three-legged Nagasaki chair, both of which were reissued by the Danish brand. French furniture designer Pierre Paulin created the inviting, organically shaped Pacha lounge chair in 1975. This design yielded a loveseat and a sofa as well. All of these pieces were reissued by Gubi.
Since 2001, Gubi founders’ son, Jacob Olsen, has managed the company, and travels the world to find heirs to the iconic designers of yesteryear in order to secure permission to give their works a second life.
Louis Weisdorf 'Multi-Lite' Wall Lamp for GUBI in Shiny Brass
By Gubi, Louis Weisdorf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Louis Weisdorf 'Multi-Lite' Wall Lamp for GUBI in Shiny Brass Faithfully developed from an original sketch by Louis Weisdorf, the Multi-Lite Wall Lamp brings a new dimension to one ...
Metal, Brass, Steel
Poul Henningsen 'PH 2-1' Opaline Glass and Chrome Wall Lamp for Louis Poulsen
By Poul Henningsen, Louis Poulsen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Poul Henningsen 'PH 2-1' Opal Glass and Chrome Wall Lamp for Louis Poulsen These refined wall lamps are an addition to the Louis Poulsen PH collection and are based on Poul Henningsen's original drawings from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Poul Henningsen designed hundreds of lamps based on the three-shade-system he developed in 1926, pioneering unequalled lighting quality for all types of needs. Executed in mouth-blown white opal glass, the shades are meticulously crafted at Louis Poulsen's factory in Vejen, by Louis Poulsen's own staff – a craft only very few are trained in. They are then carefully perched atop a high luster chrome-plated spun brass arm and attached to matching chrome...
Aluminum, Brass, Chrome
Poul Henningsen 'PH 3-2' Opaline Glass and Chrome Wall Lamp for Louis Poulsen
By Louis Poulsen, Poul Henningsen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Poul Henningsen 'PH 3-2' Opal Glass and Chrome Wall Lamp for Louis Poulsen. The 'PH3/2' wall lamps are an addition to the Louis Poulsen 'PH' collection and are based on Poul Henning...
Aluminum, Brass, Chrome
Louis Weisdorf 'Multi-Lite' Wall Lamp for GUBI in Black and Brass
By Gubi, Louis Weisdorf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Louis Weisdorf 'Multi-Lite' Wall Lamp for GUBI in Black and Brass Faithfully developed from an original sketch by Louis Weisdorf, the Multi-Lite Wall Lamp brings a new dimension to ...
Metal, Brass, Steel
Ignazio Gardella 'Coppa Aperta Applique' Wall Lamp in Silver and Chrome
By Ignazio Gardella, Tato Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ignazio Gardella 'Coppa Aperta Applique' Wall Lamp in Silver and Chrome. Ignazio Gardella was one of the leading figures in Italian twentieth-century architecture. A graduate of the...
Metal, Chrome
Ignazio Gardella 'Galleria' Wall Lamp in Chrome and Glass for Tato Italia
By Ignazio Gardella, Tato Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ignazio Gardella 'Galleria' Wall Lamp in Chrome and Glass for Tato Italia As often happened with Gardella, his designs were born from a specific need in an architectural project, a...
Metal, Chrome
Italian mid-century modern metal wall lamp by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, 1960s
By Artemide, Sergio Mazza
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern metal wall lamp by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, 1960s Wall lamp or applique in metal. The adjustable elongated stem is in metal tubing, in the upper part cur...
Metal
Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena LP 23 Chrome Wall Lamp, Italy
By Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Azucena
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Large wall lamp designed by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena, Italy, circa 1996. This wall lamp has a chrome plated metal wall plate and a frosted glass diffuser shade in front. Th...
Chrome
Mid-Century Space Age Minimalist German Chrome Wall Lamp from Hustadt, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Simple wall light from Hustadt Leuchten. Simple cylindrical shape and colored in chrome. The black mounting plate is recessed and creates a shadow gap on the wall. The light has a p...
Metal
Stilux Wall Lamp, Chrome & Enameled Metal, Mid-Century Modern, 1960s
By Stilux
Located in Long Island City, NY
Stilux wall lamp. Designed and made in Italy, 1960s Chrome plated metal, enameled metal. Shade diameter 5.5 inches. Depth roughly 10-14.5 inches Takes one medium bulb. Complimentary ...
Steel, Chrome
Design Studio 63 Wall Lamp 'Kelly' Chromium-Plated by Oluce
By Oluce
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Wall lamp 'Kelly' designed by Design Studio 63 in 2011. Wall lamp giving up & down light in curved laser-cut metal. White lacquered metal wall plate. White lacquered or chromium-plat...
Metal
Space age 2-light wall sconce, chromed metal, Italy, 1970's
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Beautiful space age 2-light wall sconce, chromed metal, Italy 1970s. Featuring sleek polished chrome frame with stepped cylindrical holder and exposed bulbs, creating bold geometric ...
Metal, Chrome
