Louis Poulsen PH Artichoke, pendant

 

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The PH Artichoke is a classical masterpiece that was created by Poul Henningsen in the year 1958. Poul Henningsen is deemed to be a leading personality of artistic life in the time between two world wars. Already in his lifetime, his designs were produced by Louis Poulsen, this hasn’t changed until today.

Nearly equally popular and doubtlessly also stylish like the most famous work from Henningsen, the PH pendant lamp, does the Artichoke show itself with its structure made out of twelve steel arches. On top of it are 72 copper leaves in twelve circular lines, placed with six leaves each one.

As every line is moved to the following, all 72 leaves can “cover each other” creating an all-round-anti-glare lamp whose light source is hidden; no matter from which angle it is seen. The light is lead to the following leaves and reflected, creating then a distinctive, unique illumination. The first Artichokes were developed for a restaurant in Copenhagen named Langelinie Pavilion – and this is where they do still hang.

The PH Artichoke pendant lamp is also available in a “Copper” variant.

Design: Poul Henningsen

Poul Henningsen was born in Copenhagen as a son of the famous Danish actor Agnes Henningsen. Designer Poul Henningsen