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Louis Poulsen 2019
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“Once you have experienced good lighting, life is filled with new values.” - Poul Henningse

Design to Shape Light Louis Poulsen is a Danish lighting manufacturer founded in 1874 and born out of the Scandinavian design tradition where form follows function. The function and design of our products are tailored to reflect and support the rhythm of natural light. Since our first collaboration with Poul Henningsen in 1924, his views on the dualities of design and light have influenced our light philosophy. Every detail in the design has a purpose. Every design starts and ends with light. We believe in passionate craftsmanship that produces quality lighting and appealing design...

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Designer Overview 7 The PH 5 Story 15 Meet Flindt 21 Q&A GamFratesi 25 News 31 Decorative Lighting 41 Architectural Lighting 157 Outdoor Lighting 211 Technical Info 281

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Designer Overview Alfred Homann Arne Jacobsen Bystrup Arkitekter/ Henning Larsen

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Designer Overview Christian Flindt Carsten Fischer/ Henning Larsen Jakob Wagner Jens Møller-Jensen Julie Richoz

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Designer Overview Louise Campbell Olafur Eliasson Mads Odgård Mikkel Beedholm Peter Bysted

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Designer Overview Poul Henningsen Vilhelm Wohlert Shoichi Uchiyama Vilhelm Lauritzen Verner Panton Øivind Slaatto

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17 It is more than 60 years ago that one of the world’s most well-known and popular lamps first saw the light of day. In 1958, the designer Poul Henningsen completed work on the PH 5 pendant, which in many ways marked the pinnacle of his long career. Since then, PH 5 has been an icon of Danish design, and a much-loved lamp that for generations has illuminated countless dining tables around the world. Poul Henningsen, otherwise known as PH, had a mission: He wanted to create an electric lamp with pleasant, glare-free light. Taking this as his starting point, he developed a lighting...

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A PH 5 hanging above a dining table must firstly illuminate the table well so that you can see the food or read the newspaper. The second type of illumination is weaker, and is directed more diffusely out towards the perimeter of the table, so that the people sitting at the table are illuminated by a soft and pleasant glow without any hard facial shadows. The third type of illumination gently lights up the space beyond the table, so that you can see the floor. Finally, the fourth type of illumination helps to illuminate the room with a little uplight. PH 5 provides all four types of...

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Christian Flindt With all the complex technology that lives inside modern light sources, you don’t necessarly think of a lighting designer as someone with a penchant for wood-carving. Yet this is precisely the approach that led Christian Flindt to develop a unique lighting concept of striking beauty and quiet power. Here, Flindt muses about the healthy obsession that sparked his latest lighting design idea, reflects on twelve years of working with Louis Poulsen, and imagines the myriad spaces that will become home to the Flindt Wall. Product name Carving out the perfect light “In the...

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24 True to the designer’s vision, the Flindt Wall can be mounted according to desired effect and location. Indoors, it’s ideal for circulation spaces that call for gentle illumination, including lobbies, hallways, and stairwells. Outdoors, it mounts beautifully on any walls to light up parks, paths, patios, driveways – and of course walls and buildings themselves. To match any palette and space, the Flindt Wall comes in aluminium-coloured, white and corten-coloured – and in three sizes. “I see them all lined up in the same size on a long wall as far as the eye can see,” says Flindt. “I see...

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Product name In launching the new Yuh table, floor and wall lamps, the designer duo GamFratesi are joining the ranks of illustrious designers and architects who have created lighting products for Louis Poulsen Living up to the company’s proud heritage could have been a source of anxiety, but Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi actually feel that Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen helped them in arriving at the final result.

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28 What requirements did Louis Poulsen make regarding the lamp you were asked to design? Enrico Fratesi: “The only formal requirement was that it needed to be a table and a floor lamp. After that, we were told that the lamp should not be for the office, but for using throughout the home. It had to be both decorative and functional. And even though the lamp might be a very complex product, it was important that the user was not aware of this complexity. That was the brief we were given, and then we set to work – which was just over a year ago.” Enrico Fratesi: “The Italian approach always...

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