The story of a pink Vetri Murano wall lamp
This lamp travelled from a flea market outside Bologna to a bedroom in Copenhagen. Here's how.
At a tailgate flea market outside Bologna one Saturday morning in March, there was a small pink Murano wall lamp. The glass was a soft rosé — almost shell-coloured — with thin white lines inside. 26 cm in diameter. A small paper tag on the back, marked Vetri.
We bought it.
Vetri is one of those Italian makers from the 70s that produced many of the mushroom lamps we now call classics. They weren't a fine-art brand back then — they made beautiful things for ordinary homes. That's probably why we love them so much.
The lamp came home, got cleaned, got new wiring, and now hangs above a bedside table on Frederiksberg. It's not the most expensive lamp we've sold. It's just one of the ones we remember.
