Carl Thore

Carl Thore is the name behind many of the stacked metal pendants made in Sweden by Granhaga in the 1960s and 1970s, the Trava first among them.

According to research by Viveca Carlsson published in the Swedish magazine Hus & Hem Retro in 2012, as reported by Classic Modern, Carl Thore was the pseudonym of Sigurd Lindkvist, born in 1916 in Åmål, in the province of Dalsland, who formed the name from two of his middle names. His year of death is not confirmed.

Before 1961 he worked for the lighting company Luko. In 1961 he joined Granhaga Metallindustri in Töreboda as head of sales and lighting designer, and stayed until he retired around 1981. According to the company history of Hermanders, Granhaga and Hermanders merged on 1 January 1979 to form Nordsales Granhaga AB, which filed for bankruptcy in 1983.

• Trava ("stack" in Swedish): his best-known pendant, made in several sizes and colours. One source dates it to 1967, others simply to the 1960s.
• Stacked shades in aluminium, brass or copper-coloured metal that hide the bulb, often with a white plastic grid diffuser underneath.

Many lamps carry a small label reading "Design Carl Thore" in a handwritten-style font; Granhaga's own company labels also exist. The lamps are sometimes credited to Fog and Mørup, which is a mistake: the confusion probably comes from their resemblance to Jo Hammerborg's Nova pendant for Fog and Mørup.