Trava Lamp from the swedish icon designer Carl Thore. The Lamp is made by Granhaga. Description: No dents and few scratches. See pictures. Sent without bulb. The lamp is packed well with track and trace. The real name of the designer known as Carl Thore was Sigurd Lindkvist, and he was born in 1916 in Amal in Sweden’s Dalsland. After working for a lighting firm called Luko, in 1961 Lindkvist joined Granhaga Metallindustri, for whom he designed lights and was also head of sales, remaining with the company until he retired in around 1981. Lindkvist adopted the pseudonym Carl Thore for his Granhaga light designs on the spur of the moment when he was presenting the lights to a client who asked the identity of the designer. “Carl Thore,” Lindkvist blurted out, these being his two middle names. Thereafter the Granhaga lights were embellished with a small label on which the words “Design Carl Thore” were printed in a handwritten-style font. The most popular and widely distributed of Lindkvist’s Carl Thore lamp designs for Granhaga (and his best-known design today) was the appropriately named Trava (Stack in English). Travas were produced in several variations of style and size and were sold in Sweden through the Swedish Consumer Cooperatives chain of shops known as KF Interior.