Globe shaped lamps by Poul Henningsen!

Описание: Here’s a short timeline of the globe shaped lamps designed by the Danish architect Poul Henningsen. Well, he did design two different globe lamps already in 1921, we’ve written about them before. They were far from successful and therefore let’s start with the lamps made for the 1925 Paris exhibition.
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1st lamp: the prototype ‘Type II A’ designed by Henningsen in collaboration with Knud Sørensen. When the collaboration with Louis Poulsen was initiated this prototype was scraped due to insufficient lighting abilities.
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2nd lamp: the huge 1.2 meter ‘Paris Globe’ designed by Henningsen & Sørensen for the Danish National Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Worlds Fair. Made from silver plated metal it turned out to be somewhat blinding and remained a prototype.
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3rd lamp: the ‘PH Kugle’ (Globe) was designed in 1957 for the Skodsborg sanatorium.
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4th lamp: the ‘Kuglelamell’ (Globe lamella) shown at the ‘Glas, lys og farver’ exhibition held at the Danish museum of Art & Design in 1958. It was only shown at this single exhibition and then forgotten (probably much due to the success of the Artichoke and the PH5 featured at the same exhibition.) It wasn’t put into production by Louis Poulsen until 1983. This somewhat re-designed version was called the PH Snowball.
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5th lamp: the ‘Kontrast’ (Contrast) lamp was developed by Henningsen between 1958-62. It was a technically advanced lamp with ten shades, each with four different areas coated in red, blue, white respectively polished metal. By adjusting the height of the light source one could change the light pattern and color.

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