In 2020, Louis Poulsen will release a new color for the PH Artichoke series, black. Complementing the bold style, the matte black finish is perfect for those who want to complete their interiors with an edge without compromising on design or light quality.
Thanks to its unique shape and the craftsmanship of its craftsmen, PH artichokes can produce a completely glare-free light from any angle. This was a request from the Langelinia Pavilion, a modernist restaurant in Copenhagen that commissioned Poul Henningsen to design the pendant. PH artichokes still light up the tables in this restaurant. Today, the pendant is internationally known as a design icon.
What creates the refined light of the PH artichoke is the 72 precisely placed blades that give it its name. To ensure high quality, the majority of the manufacturing process is still done by hand. Because the excellent design of this pendant is all about the feathers.
PH There is no doubt that artichokes are most attractive in large spaces. However, the elegant and powerful design is beautiful in any space, filling the room with the perfect light and creating a special atmosphere. Sometimes the perfect design just needs to be added a little more. That's what the new black PH artichoke comes in.
PH Artichoke Black has a matte black body and black cords and fixtures for a unified style. The back of the blades is painted white and, like the other colors, reflects light perfectly. The PH Artichoke Black is equipped with an LED light source and will be available in four sizes (Ø4, Ø480, Ø600 and Ø720).
PH Artichoke Black
About Poul Henningsen
Poul Heningsen was born in Copenhagen to the Danish writer Agnes Henningsen. He did not have a diploma as an architect and studied at the Technical School in Frederiksberg from 1911 to 1914 and at the Technical College in Copenhagen from 1914 to 1917. After starting his career in traditional functionalist architecture, his interests shifted to the field of lighting.
In addition, the field of activity has expanded to include writing, and he is also active as a journalist and writer. In the early years of World War II, he was also the chief architect of the Tivoli Park in Copenhagen, but during the German occupation, like many other artists, he fled to Sweden, where he quickly became a central figure in the Danish artist community.
His collaboration with the Louis Poulsen company began in 1925 and lasted until his death. To this day, Louis Poulsen benefits from Henningsen's genius. Poul Henningsen became the first editor of Louis Poulsen's public relations magazine, NYT. The NYT magazine was given to Henningsen as a gift by then-Louis Poulsen CEO Sohus Kastrup-Olsen after he was forced out of his job as a writer by a Danish newspaper. (His political and cultural opinions were quite radical at the time.) ）
Poul Henningsen's pioneering work in the field of lighting – shadow and light, glare and the reproduction of color with light, and the use of these properties of light for the benefit of human beings – are still the basis of the lighting theory practiced by Louis Poulsen.