wästberg
Product catalogue 2024
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Our aim is to create well-being through good light.
In close collaboration with leading architects and
designers, Wästberg creates long-lasting, techno-
logically driven, economically viable and environ-
mentally conscious lighting. Lighting that answers
to fundamental human needs, both physical and
emotional, and adapts to these needs as they evolve
and shift.
In our 2008 manifesto Lamps for Neanderthal Man,
we pointed out man’s primitive relationship to light
in the form of fire. For more than a million years, fire
was our only artificial light source. It frightened off
wild animals, brought us together, kept us warm and
made us feel safe. Above all, it gave us light that we
could keep close, that we could control.
Electric light has been around for little more than
a century – a blink of an eye in comparison with
human evolution. Today, we find ourselves trying
to tame our primitive needs to meet the demands
of a modern, high-tech world, where light has more
or less become a world of electronics. In our overly-
lit spaces – created under the mistaken notion that
more light equals greater productivity – we feel
exposed, small, with nowhere to go.
Introduction
We believe in creating modern-day fires. Light
should shine for us, not on us.
We also believe in lighting that answers to funda-
mental human needs. The need to be able to see,
read and write, but also to reflect, envision and
imagine. The need to be a part of a dynamic social
context, but also to be able to withdraw to a personal
sphere of familiarity and safety.
Technology and innovation are at the heart of
what we do and are crucial to providing good light.
However, we understand that what’s technically
possible is not always humanly preferable. To us,
true innovation means making the effort to find the
best possible solutions, putting equal effort into
both the measurable and the immeasurable.
