Northern Dokka Pendant Lamp
Dokka Pendant Lamp
DOKKA PENDANT LAMP
Designed by Birger Dahl
Dokka is a small light with a big history. Designed in 1954, it was the first lamp from Norway to receive a Golden Medal award at the prestigious Triennale di Milano.
Acclaimed for its smooth contours, precise proportions and sleek handling of materials, Dokka had the potential to become a design classic from day one.
DESIGNER
BIRGER DAHL
Award-winning designer Birger Dahl (1916 – 1998) was a pioneer of contemporary Scandinavian lighting. The mid-century years were a formative period of his work, when he forged his signature streamlined style and launched a new vision of lighting design.
Dahl’s career had actually begun the previous decade, when he became head of design at Norwegian electronics firm Sønnico and created the award-winning Dokka pendant lamp.
Dokka was the first lamp in Norway to receive a Gold Medal award at the prestigious Triennale di Milano, which brought Norwegian lighting under the international spotlight.
While acclaimed for his lighting designs, Dahl is also considered to be one of Norway’s leading Post-war interior architects. Strict geometric shapes, such as circles, cones and cylinders, were the building blocks of Dahl’s design vocabulary, which he softened with gentle contours.
He emphasised the purity of form, highlighting the shape of the object rather than hiding it behind decorative details or layers of ornamentation.
Sensibilities like these explain why his work still appears modern today, and why lighting designs such as Dokka, Birdy and Dahl are so compatible with the interiors of our time.
INFORMATION
WIRE
White rubber (white version only) or black rubber (all other versions), 370 cm
BRAND
Northern
PRODUCT TYPE
Pandant Lamp
COLLECTION
Dokka
PRODUCTION
Made in Norway
LIGHTING RANGE
It became one of the best-selling pendant lamps ever produced in Norway, then disappeared when the previous manufacturer discontinued their lighting range.
SHADE MATERIAL
Steel or brass (brass version only)
ITEM NO
2790
BULB
E27 Max
MINIMUM ORDER SIZE
2
WATTAGE
60 W
VOLTAGE
220v - 240v ~ 50/60hz
TECHNICAL DRAWING
DOWNLOADS
↓ BIM/3D files
↓ Product Sheet
IP RATING
IP20
SHADE INNER COLOUR
White
SHADE RING MATERIAL
Brass
DESIGNER
Birger Dahl
NET WEIGHT
0.9 kg CE
BODY AND JOINTS COLOUR
Steel
DETAIL
In 2007, Northern re-launched Dokka, taking care to preserve the features that made it a design classic. Today, the lamp is expertly crafted in steel or brass, and made to last. The light is available in a range of colours: black, dark grey, white, light yellow, rust red, dark green, warm beige, brushed steel and brushed brass. An icon of its time, Dokka is uniquely contemporary, and is destined to become a future antique.
RECOMMENDED BULB
LED – 11 W
SPARE PART AVAILABLE
Cord grip canopy
DESIGN YEAR
Birger Dahl, 1954
ENVIRONMENT
Indoor
MATERIAL
MATERIAL
