Pendant fitting Added by AlvarAalto

 

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Photo: Alvar Aalto website

This interior lighting fixture, nicknamed the Beehive, was designed in the early 1950s. It is manufactured by Artek and made from painted brass and brass. Inspiration might have come from Poul Henningsen, whose work Aalto saw in the 1920s.

Source:
Alvar Aalto website
http://www.alvaraalto.fi/alvar/design/light/index.htm