Danish Just Andersen art deco table lamp in disco metal by Just Andersen A/S in the 1930´s.
 
The tablelamp is made in Disco metal, an alloy of lead and antimony, which was Andersen's own invention and named after the Disko Bay of Greenland, where he grew up.
 
The table lamp is in good vintage condition and marked with Just. Andersens triangle mark.
 
Just Andersen 1884-1943 was born in Godhavn on the Disko island, which is located on the west side of Greenland. His parents were inspector and probate manager in North Greenland. Just Andersens creative gene was quite obviously stimulated and developed during his childhood.
 
Through his parents' business he grew up with a view of the world, and in contact with researchers and explorers who were later famous and inscribed in the history of their exploration and records of Greenland among them the famous explorers Robert Edwin Peary and Knud Rasmussen.