The renowned Danish designer Jakob Wagner’s new Ripls luminaire joins the Louis Poulsen collection, adding a multi-dimensional lighting experience while providing excellent general lighting.
The round wall and ceiling fixture, which emits diffused light, features a concave, clear front shaped like water ripples. The ripples refract light in the front, creating a subtle change of appearance depending on the viewing angle.
“There is something entrancing about watching the ripples that transform the water’s surface after an object has dropped in, and we wanted to capture that moment in time – while using the undulating, concentric forms to shape the light coming from within,” explains Jakob Wagner. “Just as ripples add dimensionality to still waters, the ripple shape rendered in glass adds dimensionality to the light, making Ripls an unusually engaging, dynamic, yet also soothing light source.”
“The ingenuity of Wagner’s design is that it is at once ultra-simple – yet constantly changing as you move past it,” says Rasmus Markholt, Idea & Design Director, at Louis Poulsen. “He has succeeded in creating a design that offers a multi-dimensional experience; one can say, in other words, that the lamp is designed at several levels. Immediately and from a distance, it is just an opal, round lamp – a luminous disc. It is absolutely minimal and there can be 50 of them in a room without attracting much attention. But upon approaching, you see concentric waves catching the light and making their own refractions in an everchanging way. And if you happen to touch the surface, you are surprised to realise that the exterior is smooth: the ripples reside within, creating a bit of magic.”
The Ripls’ slim, discshaped, concave form results in higher-intensity light in the centre that fades toward the edges. A diffuser offset sits deep within the fixture, creating a sense of depth when viewed from the front. The slim housing creates the appearance of a floating disc, while perforations in the opaque housing allow indirect light to create a halo around the fixture. The overall effect is deep, glowing and playful, with just the right balance of impact and subtlety to fit primly into any architectural space.
Ripls is particularly well suited for corridors, stairwells, and entrance areas, and brings ideal general lighting into small office spaces and meeting rooms.
A workhorse design with many extra features, the Ripls luminaire emits diffused light and comes in two diameters: 310 mm and 500 mm and is available for all markets, with 3000K as standard. It is available in clear reflective, white opal and satin matte white options.
Ripls will become available in Septemer 2017.
Product Information & Specifications
Design: Jakob Wagner
Year: 2017
Finish: Clear reflective, white opal and satin matte white.
Material: Rear housing: Injection-moulded polycarbonate.
Diffuser: Opalescent PMMA (tbc), clear front: Clear UV resistant polycarbonate.
Dimensions: Ø 310, Ø 500
About Jakob Wagner
Jakob Wagner’s simple yet sophisticated work expresses the essence of a product in a minimalist, poetic and playful manner. His design process is de-tailed and considers all angles of the user experience, which results in timeless, well-balanced design.
Born in Copenhagen in 1963, Wagner earned a B.Sc. in Design Engineering at DIA-M in Denmark (1987) and completed his second degree in Product Design at Art Center, Switzerland (1992). In 1993, following
internships and studies in the United States, Italy and France, he founded Jakob Wagner Studio in Co-penhagen.
The studio began by focusing on high-tech products for medical, professional and sports applications, and later on home products. This led to product lines for Alessi, Bang & Olufsen, Menu, Muuto and Stelton, and furniture projects for Cappellini, B&B Italia, Moroso and Hay, among others.
Jakob’s work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards (six iF Awards, three Red Dot Awards, Bundespreis, Designer of the Year), and is part of the permanent exhibition at MoMA in New York.
About Louis Poulsen
Founded in 1874, the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen creates prod-ucts 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 lights and solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications. In close partner-ship with designers and architects like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Øivind Slaatto, Alfred Homann, Oki Sato and GamFratesi, Louis Poulsen has established itself as one of the key suppliers of architectural and decorative lighting and has a global presence with dedicated showrooms in Co-penhagen, Stockholm, Miami, Oslo, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Dusseldorf.
For further information, please contact:
Group PR Manager, Sarah Lærke Stevens, sls@louispoulsen.dk, Tel: (+45) 4123 7903
Press release, October 2017