Kay Kørbing designed this pendant in 1967 for the interiors of two DFDS ferries, the M/S Winston Churchill and the M/S Princesse Margrethe — the same design also found its way into Arne Jacobsen's foyer at Copenhagen's Radisson Royal Hotel. Lyfa manufactured it in solid, partially lacquered brass, perforated in a fine vertical pattern that lets light escape in soft vertical stripes, and commissioned the thick crystal ring at the base from Orrefors in Sweden rather than making it in-house — a small detail that tells you how seriously Lyfa took the glasswork on this one.
This example is the long-shaft variant — the same fixture, but with a taller drop, likely specified for a higher ceiling or a different install point on the original ferry or building it came from. Everything else — the brass, the perforation, the crystal ring — is unchanged from the standard model.
Kay Kørbing designed this pendant in 1967 for the interiors of two DFDS ferries, the M/S Winston Churchill and the M/S Princesse Margrethe — the same design also found its way into Arne Jacobsen's foyer at Copenhagen's Radisson Royal Hotel. Lyfa manufactured it in solid, partially lacquered brass, perforated in a fine vertical pattern that lets light escape in soft vertical stripes, and commissioned the thick crystal ring at the base from Orrefors in Sweden rather than making it in-house — a small detail that tells you how seriously Lyfa took the glasswork on this one.
This example is the long-shaft variant — the same fixture, but with a taller drop, likely specified for a higher ceiling or a different install point on the original ferry or building it came from. Everything else — the brass, the perforation, the crystal ring — is unchanged from the standard model.
