Hall is a small lamp with a monumental address. Designed by Birger Dahl in 1955, it has graced the façades of Oslo City Hall, Elverum Town Hall, Statens hus in Vadsø and public buildings across Norway for decades, quietly illuminating some of the country’s most iconic architecture, season after season. Now, for the first time, Northern brings this outdoor design classic back to life.
The Hall lamp has, since its birth in 1955, been available in different versions and sizes. This petite version, designed for both indoor and outdoor use, highlights the key characteristics of the classic yet timeless design. Its presence on so many post-war public buildings makes it not just a product, but a piece of Norwegian architectural memory.
The lamp’s signature is instantly recognisable: a mouth-blown opal glass shade divided by a slender metal band, held outward from the wall on a compact cast arm. It is a form that is at once functional and quietly expressive, pure Birger Dahl. Hall is built for the elements and performs equally well indoors and outdoors. It casts a generous, even glow across stone, timber and concrete façades, and is equally at home in entrances, hallways, stairways, corridors, kitchens and bathrooms, and even the smallest hideaway in need of light. It works as a standalone piece and when arranged in rows.
The lamp series was originally produced by Norwegian lighting firm Sønnico under the designation S/2015. Northern’s relaunch preserves the silhouette and spirit of Dahl’s original, updated for contemporary use. Hall is rated IP65 and fitted with dimmable LED. The versatile wall bracket allows the lamp to be mounted vertically or horizontally.
A Norwegian design icon, finally home again.
