Ateljé Lyktan and Anders Pehrson

Ateljé Lyktan is a Swedish lighting manufacturer based in Åhus. Under Anders Pehrson, from the 1960s, it produced some of the most recognisable Swedish lamps of the period, such as the Bumling.

Ateljé Lyktan was founded in 1934 in Helsingborg by Hans Bergström and Verna Norell; according to the company, the idea took shape in a milk bar in Copenhagen, and the name combines the Swedish words for workshop and lantern. The business moved to Åhus in 1936. Bergström's plastic lamp model 181, known as Struten, won a gold medal at the tenth Milan Triennale in 1954.

Philips bought the company in 1962 and owned it until 1964, when its design chief, Anders Pehrson, took over the whole business; a Swedish company history notes that he paid one krona for it. The lighting group Fagerhult acquired Ateljé Lyktan in 1974, two years after it had supplied around 16,000 luminaires for the Olympic Village in Munich, its largest order.

Anders Pehrson was born on 19 September 1912 in Gothenburg and died on 14 July 1982. An engineer trained in Gothenburg, he was head of design at Philips before taking over Ateljé Lyktan, where he was owner, managing director and artistic director. He organised the range into families (pendant, floor, wall and table versions of one design) and gave the lamps names rather than numbers only.

• Bumling: first shown as a ceiling lamp in 1968; examples are held by Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Nordiska museet and Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo.
• Supertube: held by Nationalmuseum; dated 1967 by dealer sources.
• Tuben: tubular lamps in ceiling, table and desk versions.