Poul Henningsen Pendant Lamps

In 1925 one of these fixtures won first prize for modern lighting at the international exposition of decorative arts in paris.

Poul henningsen pendant lamps.

Poul henningsen was born in copenhagen to the famous danish actress agnes henningsen. After 33 years of basically christian behaviour i have converted to islam in my relationship to the manufact. The story of the ph lamp jorstian and nielsen pg. 5 out of 5 stars 8 8 reviews 512 00 free shipping favorite add to ph 80 table lamp by poul henningsen for louis poulsen 1970s retrodeluxdk.

Trained as an architect poul henningsen is best known for a series of lighting fixtures that resulted from his fascination with the then new technology of the electric light bulb. Poul henningsen s pioneering work concerning the relations between light structures shadows glare and color reproduction compared to man s need for light remains the fondation of the lighting theories still practiced by louis poulsen. From shop retrodeluxdk. He never graduated as an architect but studied at the technical school at frederiksberg denmark from 1911 14 and then at technical college in copenhagen from 1914 17.

Poul henningsen developed the ph 5 in 1958 in response to constant changes to the shape and size of incandescent bulbs by bulb manufacturers at the introduction of the ph 5 poul henningsen wrote the following. Louis poulsen ph5 pendant lamp.