Iconic Rare 1st Edition Poul Henningsen PH 5 Chandelier Pendant Lamp from 1958
About the Item
- Creator:Poul Henningsen (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Diameter: 19.69 in (50 cm)
- Power Source:Hardwired
- Voltage:110-150v,208v,220-240v
- Lampshade:Included
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1958
- Condition:Rewired: Rewired with a black twisted cloth flex. The lamp has also been updated to a series 2 lamp which means that the cord is completely insulated and is not in touch with any metal and thereby not needing to be grounded. Additions or alterations made to the original: Rewired with a black twisted cloth flex. The lamp has also been updated to a series 2 lamp which means that the cord is completely insulated and is not in touch with any metal and thereby not needing to be grounded. Wear consistent with age and use. This lamp is over 60 years old And although it is in great condition it has its original paint with age related wear and with slight nicks to the paint. There are no dents. And again for a lamp of this age it presents itself extremely well.
- Seller Location:Søborg, DK
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3823136599082
Poul Henningsen
The name Poul Henningsen is synonymous with the best and most innovative modern Scandinavian lamps and other lighting. The Danish designer created a signature vocabulary of fixtures with tiered and layered shades in sculptural arrangements that are at once naturalistic and geometric.
Henningsen grew up in a town on the outskirts of Copenhagen and studied architecture at the Technical University of Denmark. He would become a noted art critic, journalist and screenwriter, but his first love was lighting design.
Henningsen’s childhood home was illuminated by oil lamps. When his family switched to electrified lighting, he was alarmed and repelled by the harsh glare cast by an incandescent bulb, and in his late teens he began conducting quasi-scientific experiments to measure which materials and methods best diffused or reflected light to give it a warm brightness. His work came to the attention of the lighting-fixtures firm Louis Poulsen, which sponsored the development of a prototype lamp. The design won a gold medal at the 1925 Paris Expositions Internationales des Arts Decóratifs et Industriels Modernes — from which the term Art Deco derives. The lamp, whose three-part shade is said to be inspired by the arrangement of a dinner plate atop a soup bowl atop a teacup, became the basis for Henningsen’s most successful design, the PH 4/3 desk lamp.
All told, Henningsen would design some 100 lighting fixtures in his career. Some of his most notable creations are hanging lamps, which include the Septima (1929), a pendant composed of seven graduated frosted-glass layers; the Spiral (1942), made of a single ribbon of enameled aluminum; and the Artichoke lamp (1958), whose 70 glass or metal fins in a staggered and graduated arrangement on a central steel frame resemble those of its namesake. The last is likely Henningsen’s masterwork and an icon of mid-20th-century design. Like all Henningsen lighting designs, it is striking, sculptural and — thanks to his insistence on the primacy of the quality of the light cast — superbly functional.
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