In our latest YouTube video we’re talking about the lamps designed by Poul Henningsen in collaboration with the employee Knud Sørensen for the 1925 Paris World’s Fair. (Follow link in bio to watch the video if you haven’t already!)
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The story about these lamps started somewhat prior. In 1923 the architect Kaare Klint was commissioned to redesign the Thorvaldsen art museum in Copenhagen. Soon he contacted Henningsen, asking him to design a lamp for the project. Sketches for a new type of pendant lamp was made at the Henningsen design studio the same winter. (To the left in the picture.) Sadly Klint was removed from the Thorvaldsen project and suddenly no lamps were needed for the museum. But at the Henningsen studio the development continued nevertheless, and in the spring of 1924 yet another sketch was made, later named Type II B. (The lamp in the middle of the picture.) Each shade lit up a specific part of the room, and this resulted in a blinding lamp. To solve this problem Henningsen and Sørensen developed yet another lamp, later named Type II A. (To the right in the picture.) All these lamps remained sketches and were never produced, but we’ve done some photoshopping in an attempt to bring them to life.
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