The Czech design workshop Napako dates back to the founding of a syndicate of many impoverished metalworkers in the 1920s. Unemployed locksmiths, welders and blacksmiths came together and designed and produced the lights that are now legendary. Josef Hurka is one of the best-known artists from these working groups. The fact that the workshops were often short of resources explains why this lamp is also available in a version with just one vertical metal arm.
This variant is the more complex and surprisingly well preserved!
The base of the lights is made of high-quality cardboard and therefore suggests that the internal wiring has already been renewed. One of the two lamps only has a small bump on the side of the round base and a minimal crack in the paint - about the size of an eyebrow hair.
Both lights work wonderfully. In order to make the plugs suitable for today's European sockets, I had to remove small corners of the plastic. Now they fit perfectly. The lights work with E14 bulbs
The chrome rods of the lamp reach a height of 48 cm. If you set the lampshade to the upper maximum and turn it upwards, the lamp is about 60 cm high. There is a range of 20-30 cm in width, depending on the position of the spot.