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About Louis Poulsen



The Story of Louis Poulsen

The story of Louis Poulsen Lighting starts in the year 1874, when Ludvig R. Poulsen established a wine import company in Copenhagen. Following his death in 1906 his nephew, one Louis Poulsen, took over the company; a company which by now had switched its focus to metal and tool production, and which eventually also turned to lighting. In context of the 1924 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris - "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs & Industriels Moderne" - Louis Poulsen began what was to become a long and productive cooperation with Danish designer Poul Henningsen; beginning in 1926 with the launch of the first PH lamp. In addition to producing the works of Henningsen in both their original form and as anniversary re-editions, Louis Poulsen has also released further Danish lamp designs classics such as, for example, Arne Jacobsen AJ lamps from 1960 or Verner Panton Panthella from 1971. In addition Louis Poulsen is very active in the field of outdoor lighting, in particular developing lighting projects in collaboration with architects.


AJ Lamps

The characteristic feature of the AJ lighting family is a balanced interplay of symmetry and proportion; characteristics which also act as central elements in Arne Jacobsen's furniture designs. Arne Jacobsen's work stands clearly in the tradition of Scandinavian modernism and is regarded as a textbook expression of functionalist architecture and design theory. The Arne Jacobsen lamps were created in context of one of his most important architectural projects, the 1956 SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, or which Arne Jacobsen created everything, from the building itself over the furniture and lighting through to the cutlery. The striking feature of the Arne Jacobsen lamp is the combination of angles and lines, cylinders and circles, thus formally the Louis Poulsen AJ Table lamp and Floor lamp AJ must be considered as organic. Embracing as the lamps do the principles of functionalism, the design of the lamps largely expresses the function: The cone shaped shade of the Arne Jacobsen lamps literally throwing the light on the table. The colour scheme of the Louis Poulsen AJ lamps is based on soft, understated nuances which deliberately do not dominate their surroundings.

AJ Tischleuchte

PH Lamps

The cooperation between lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen and designer Poul henningsen dates back to 1924 when Henningsen created the first models of his PH lamps from which later classics such as the PH 5 or PH 50 originated. In the famous Poul Henningsen lamps three different sized, painted metal screens, are arranged according to the principles of the logarithmic spiral and thus radiate a diffuse, glare-free light. As with all of Henningsen's design, the relationship between light and shadow, texture and reflection is vital for the PH lamps. In 1958 Louis Poulsen released the PH Artichoke on the market, a lamp in which the construction principle of the classic PH lamp has been extended such that the metal sheets no longer consists of three metal shells, but rather from many small leaves, arranged artichoke-like. For the duration of his career Poul Henningsen worked on developing glare-free lighting characterised by soft shadow, and creating in conjunction with Louis Poulsen lamps which combined such with the demands of modern lighting design.

PH Artichoke


Inspiration

Find out about the special meaning light has for Louis Poulsen in their Reflections Magazines. Browse through the current issues and let yourself be inspired.



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