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Original Robert Dudley Best Bestlite BL1 Table Lamp, Not Gubi

Creator: Robert Dudley Best - Bestlite
Offered by: Iconic Design Gallery

Description
Original Robert Dudley Best Bestlite BL1 Table Lamp

Offered for sale is an original Bestlite BL1 Table Lamp by Robert Dudley Best for Best & Lloyd.
This lamp is original and marked appropriately. It is in good vintage condition with some expected fine marks to the chrome as seen with the close up of the makers mark. The light arm swings out and the arm hinge raises and lowers on the chrome post. The lamp is marked "British Rd762006 Best". This is not a Gubi copy from Denmark.

Designed by Robert Dudley Best in 1930, the Bestlite BL1 Table Lamp is a recognized design with influences from Bauhaus. Winston Churchill chose the Bestlite BL1 Table Lamp for his desk in the Whitehall and history records that Churchill even took the lamp with him on his trips around the world. This was the big breakthrough for the Bestlite, which still makes it a design classic today. Bestlite is held in permanent collections at both the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Design Museum in London.

Bestlite sold the rights to this lamp to Gubi in the late 1990s and they began to produce new lamps in 2006 from Denmark. This is the original British model.

20.5" high as the shortest.

Power Source: Plug-in
Lampshade: Included

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	England
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Chrome, Metal.
Condition:	Good. Wear consistent with age and use. minor vintage wear, age wear to the chrome and a couple paint scrapes inside the shade a shown. Vintage patina.
Creation Date:	Mid 20th Century
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Bauhaus
Incollect Reference #:	810865

Dimensions

W.	15 in;	H.	33.5 in;	D.	8.63 in;
W.	38.1 cm;	H.	85.09 cm;	D.	21.92 cm;

Message from Seller:

Iconic Design Gallery was established by Alberto Guerrero in 1991 and focuses on bringing to it's client's a wide variety of furniture, fine art, sculpture, lighting, decorative objects and hard to find pieces. We are the definitive source for interior designers in South Florida. We have a large inventory of eclectic pieces that we source around the world.