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Another twist in the Jørn Utzon Søvaernspendel debate
29 August 2012
The identity of the designer of the Søvaernspendel, the light produced first by Nordisk Solar Compagni and later by Louis Poulsen, has been the subject of an ongoing debate on this blog over the past couple of years. Our previous posts and the valuable insights contributed by our readers [read more...]
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More on the origins of the Søvaernspendel
5 October 2011
A Danish reader, Harry Møller Nielsen, left a most interesting comment yesterday on our blog entry Jørn Utzon and the Søvaernspendel, one of two we wrote last December [read more...]
A tale of two Topans: the Pendant & the Spot
23 June 2011
Verner Panton's futuristic 1959 Topan light design for Louis Poulsen has rarely been out of the limelight in its more than 50 years of existence. Frequently copied and never out of style, the clipped sphere [read more...]
PH & Panton weren’t just good friends
11 May 2011
The family connection between two of the great Danish lighting designers is widely known – indeed, anyone who is aware of Simon Henningsen's work will almost certainly know that he was the the son of Poul Henningsen. But less well known is [read more...]
Poulsen, Panton and the space programme
25 April 2011
On 26 September 1972 in the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, journalist Bengt Rooke reported that a 60-strong delegation of American architects and interior designers working on ideas for future space travel and astronauts living in space had consulted Louis Poulsen [read more...]
Poul Henningsen’s lighting manifesto
18 March 2011
In November 1966 Danish homestyle magazine Bo Bedre published a feature by Kirsten Bundgaard in which Poul Henningsen offered his thoughts on lighting in the home. We have translated these pearls of wisdom [read more...]
F&M wall lamp is Helth not Panton
14 January 2011
The owner of the pair of lights pictured below thought that they might be a rare wall-mounted version of Verner Panton's Flowerpot. The Fog & Mørup labels present on the lights, however, reveal that [read more...]
Poulsen’s IT lamp and the ghost of PH
7 January 2011
In view of their seminal influence both in Denmark and internationally, it is no surprise that Poul Henningsen's ideas on lighting design were guiding the in-house design department at Louis Poulsen even long after his death in 1967. His legacy [read more...]
More on Utzon and the Søværnspendel
24 December 2010
Following our recent piece on the debate about whether Jørn Utzon or the Danish Navy designed the Søværnspendel (which can be read here), we received an interesting email [read more...]
Finn Juhl and the drivers of vintage value