Can You Reboot a Lamp Like a Superhero Franchise?

On a sunny evening in mid-June, a group gathered on a terrace overlooking the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, sipping Ruinart and snacking on tomato-salmon puffs. Their host, a former private equity investor named Mark Masiello, moved through the crowd.

Mr. Masiello was on a mission to make a 90-year-old lighting designer named Carlo Nason a household name. Then he’d sell as many of Mr. Nason’s lamps as possible.

The guests, a group that included designers, journalists and executives, moved to a mirrored private dining room with a view of an old roller coaster. A vellum-wrapped packet of small cards at each place setting advertised an exhibition of Mr. Nason’s lamps mounted by Mr. Masiello’s company, Form Portfolios.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/midcentury-design-furniture-lamps.html