The Sakura table lamp was designed by Michael Bang for Holmegaard, Denmark's best-known glassworks, in the 1980s. This example has an egg-shaped body of white glass crossed by a single diagonal band of black and grey, which reads as if it had been drawn inside the glass rather than applied to its surface.
Michael Bang, son of Holmegaard's first in-house designer Jacob E. Bang, worked for the factory from the early 1980s, and Sakura, the Japanese word for cherry blossom, belongs to the lighting he drew in that decade. Lamps of this model were made at Fyens Glasvaerk, the Funen works that had been part of the Kastrup og Holmegaards Glasvaerker group since 1965.
Above the glass, a slim neck in satin-finish metal rises from a rounded collar to a threaded white socket, a plain, almost architectural line that lets the body do the talking. The original paper label, Holme Gaard of Copenhagen, by appointment to the Royal Danish Court, is still on the glass.
Because the colour is worked into hand-blown glass, no two Sakura lamps carry the same pattern, and on this one the black and grey sweeps across the lower half of the body. The pleated shades shown in the photographs are for illustration only and are not included with the lamp.
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