Louis Poulsen PH

The Louis Poulsen PH lamp series is a great series of chandeliers, pendant, table, floor and wall lights, made of each lamp a true design icon. Already in 1925/26 Poul Henningsen designed the 3-piece lampshade, and the first models that emerged with the help of Louis Poulsen were shown at a Paris exhibition. This collaboration lasted until the death of Poul Henningsen in 1967. Throughout his life, it was Poul Henningsen about creating lamps with no-glare lighting that cast soft shadows and direct the beam of light on the right place. Poul Henningsen created more than the design of a lamp, but a whole system, from which emerged over the years about a thousand models.

Poul Henningsen was the first addressed on a scientific basis with the light and this took the logarithmic spiral. With their help and through the use of glass, he scored an even distribution of light and a diffuse reflection, ie glare and shadow effects were influenced as desired. Through the individual shade elements, the brightness is evenly dampened. The numbers in the model name refers to the size of the shade segments. The original lighting fixtures, such as the Model Louis Poulsen PH 2/2 have three segments, each with 20 cm diameter. The Model PH 2/1 pendant lamp, however, consists of an upper segment of 20 cm diameter and two smaller including originating from the Model PH 1/1.