Known for its distinctive design and supreme lighting quality, the Keglen pendant family is being expanded to include a table lamp, a floor lamp and a wall lamp in autumn 2021. The additions to the Keglen series make way for new lighting installations and intriguing plays of light.
The clean, graphic shapes of Keglen Table, Keglen Floor and Keglen Wall each have their own unique personality. The new series of Keglen lamps is a natural addition to the existing pendant series, designed by BIG Ideas in collaboration with Louis Poulsen.
Each individual lamp shade has a curved diffuser built in to ensure a pleasant, glare-free, downward directed light. In addition to the ambience created by the illumination of each fixture, a discreet uniform opening in the top of the shades emits a gentle light.
“The geometric and metallic shades have an organic diffuser that resembles a drop of water. In the table and floor versions, the insert meets the lamp stem and flows organically around it like liquid exhibiting surface tension.” Jakob Lange, BIG Ideas.
The table version of Keglen is based on the Ø175 pendant and uses the corresponding shade, but with the stem morphing into the bottom diffuser that allows a beautiful organic geometry to break the straight lines.
The table lamp comes with a base or a pin mounting, making it just as ideal for the home office as it is in long, decorative rows in a larger study or work environment. Details like the on/off and dimming switch located on the base or pin along with the cable, which is fed through the pin and comes out of the base, all add to the elegance of the fixture.
The Keglen Floor builds on the family relationship with the Ø400 pendant. Using the same shade size, the stem morphs into the bottom diffuser, folding it inwards as with the table lamp. The stem and base are designed to be as graphic and simple as the conical shade.
The Keglen Wall uses an equivalent shade to the Ø175 pendant, but is angled in position, parallel to the wall box and the wall, where it can be mounted to direct the light either downwards or upwards. The shade is adjustable and can rotate 45 degrees to either side for better distribution of a glare-free light. The on/off and dimmer switch is positioned on the wall box.
The new members of the Keglen family are particularly well suited to public spaces and hotel rooms, education facilities and offices as well as restaurants and cafés. Equally, the latest Keglen fixtures are a great choice when optimising lighting in homes, for example in hallways and entrance areas, living rooms and bedrooms.
The Keglen family was originally inspired by the Tirpitz Pendant, created by BIG Ideas and Louis Poulsen in their first collaboration for the Tirpitz Museum in Blåvand in Denmark in 2017, a building also designed by BIG. The Keglen series comes with energy-saving LED lights and is available in matt black and matt white.
Keglen Table, Keglen Floor and Keglen Wall will be available in Europe only from November 2021.
About BIG Ideas
BIG Ideas is BIG’s technology-driven specialist product division, managed by architect and partner Jacob Lange. BIG Ideas produces the practice’s lamps and other types of digital projects that underpin and emphasise BIG’s designs, buildings and ideas. The division was set up to gain further influence on the built environment. BIG is a renowned architectural practice founded by Bjarke Ingels in 2005 which has designed and completed award-winning buildings all over the world.
About Louis Poulsen
Founded in 1874, the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen creates products that encompass the duality of design and light. Every detail in the design has a purpose. Every design starts and ends with light. Louis Poulsen offers a range of lighting aimed at the commercial and domestic lighting markets, with illumination and solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications. In close partnership with designers, architects and other talents like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Øivind Slaatto, Alfred Homann, Oki Sato and Louise Campbell, Louis Poulsen has established itself as one of the key global suppliers of architectural and decorative lighting and has a global presence with showrooms in Copenhagen, Miami, Oslo, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Dusseldorf.