Bestlite

"The History of Bestlite" When Gubi Olsen travelled to England in 1989 he found that the former production plant of Best luminaires named Best&Lloyd was in a miserable state. The company was on the brink of bankruptcy and there was not even money left for packaging material. That is why they sold their luminaires wrapped in newspaper. Gubi Olsen succeeded in gaining the exclusive rights for the production. The foundation for the company Bestlite in Copenhagen had been laid. Olsen’s attention had been drawn to these luminaires inside a shoe shop in Copenhagen and from then on he was convinced that they would be a success in Scandinavia. And his presumptions proved true… These luminaires have already been designed by Robert Dudley Best in 1930. He had studied in Germany before and he maintained contacts to the Bauhaus school located in Dessau. During the first years the luminaires by Best were especially used in car repair shops and even in the hangar of the Royal Air Force. This was due to them being very flexible and providing optimal lighting in a variety of positions. The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew about the quality of luminaires by Best as well and he used to have one on his desk in Whitehall. Even today the Best luminaires are highly appreciated and it is mainly architects and designers who value them as a light source at their places of work. The British Robert Dudley Best was born in 1892. He studied at the School for Industrial Design in Düsseldorf and later he attended the Furniture Design Atelier in Paris. While studying in Germany, he established contacts to Dessau, Weimar and Berlin, all three cities where the founders of Bauhaus did their teaching. The inspiration to his luminaire designed in 1930 came from the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, whose designs were admired by Dudley Best on the International Exhibition in Paris in 1925. Although not directly belonging to the Bauhaus school, Dudley Best’s luminaire is of the same plain and functionally pure shape as those objects designed by his idols of Bauhaus. In the 1930s the luminaire by Robert Dudley Best advanced to a real icon in Great Britain, not least because of the fact that the former British Prime Minister Churchill had one copy on his desk in Whitehall as well. After his successful career Robert Dudley Best died in 1984 being one of the best-known British designers of the 20th century.

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BL 1 Bestlite 499,00EUR (With prepayment: 474,00EUR)	BL 10 Bestlite 539,00EUR (With prepayment: 512,00EUR)	BL 2 Bestlite 449,00EUR (With prepayment: 427,00EUR)	BL 3 Bestlite 739,00EUR (With prepayment: 702,00EUR)
BL 5 Bestlite 479,00EUR (With prepayment: 455,00EUR)	BL 6 Bestlite 439,00EUR (With prepayment: 417,00EUR)	BL 7 Bestlite 299,00EUR (With prepayment: 284,00EUR)	BL 9 M Bestlite 269,00EUR (With prepayment: 256,00EUR)
BL 9 S Bestlite 178,00EUR (With prepayment: 169,00EUR)	BL 9 XL Bestlite 539,00EUR (With prepayment: 512,00EUR)