Red & White Brutalist Metal Cocktail Pendants, Set of 2

A pair of Scandinavian Modern pendant lights, designed by Henning Rehhoff for Fog & Mørup in Denmark in the 1970s and made entirely of metal. Each one is a slender lantern of red and white plates hung around a ring, and together they bring a cheerful, graphic rhythm to the space below them.

Rehhoff built the design around play. The long and short plates hang loose on their ring and can be turned and flipped from red to white, front and back, so the owner composes the lamp rather than simply hanging it. One evening it reads as a red column striped with white, the next as a pale tower with flashes of colour. The idea belongs to the 1970s, when Danish lighting grew bolder in colour and happier to experiment. It still carries the Fog & Mørup habit of layering metal around the light, so the glow escapes through the gaps and never glares.

In this pair the red is a warm tomato tone and the white has mellowed to a soft cream, with the fine marks of fifty years on the painted metal. Switched on, the slits between the plates shine and the inner faces send a rosy warmth downward. Hang them side by side over a dining table, one set red and one set white, or let them match above a kitchen island. In a stairwell or a hallway they look like a pair of festive lanterns caught mid-celebration.