Louis Poulsen

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Design classics vanaf > Founded in 1874, Louis Poulsen became the Danish design lighting manufacturer. 
Furniture focus > Ludvig R. Poulsen starts the endeavour in 1874 setting up a wine importing business. This is however not tremendously succesful and the company closes shop late 1878. In 1892 Ludvig initiates his second company, selling tools, electra and lamp fittings. At that point light fittings and armatures are already a key part of the product mix and become more and more an essential part of sales. From there a sequence of influential designers build the brand and the company.
MAin designers > Poul Henningsen (1923 - 1958 lead design) introduced the PH collections. Arne Jacobsen (1957-1959) guest designer with the AJ Lampen. Verner Panton (1960-1973) designed several lamps for Louis Poulsen, among those designs are the Flower pot, Panthella and the Lampetit.
CLASSIC > PH5 (Henningsen), Flower pot (Panton), AJ-Lamp (Jacobsen)
SIGNATURE > Louis Poulsen is truly a Global design lighting powerhouse. Design lighting such as the PH5 lamp, the PH Artichoke, the AJ pendant and AJ table lamps, the Charlottenborg PH6 1/2, the PH Contrast lamp and the Lampetit are with no exception globally recognized iconic lighting designs.
BACKGROUND > Today, many of the historic Louis Poulsen design lamps are still in production. This is an easy choice for those designs and series that are no longer produced like the PH Kontrast lamp from 1962 that was in the day already too expensive to produce. Even for the models that are still in production collectors and designista cherish the vintage models.