Distinctive lighting design from the Klint family
Danish architect and furniture designer Kaare Klint (1888–1954) was a pupil of architect Carl Petersen and of his father, P.V. Jensen-Klint, whose pleated lampshades laid the foundation for Le Klint.
Kaare Klint designed the interior of the first Le Klint shop on Store Kirkestræde in Copenhagen in Denmark. He also created the designs for the LK 101 "Fruit Lantern" and the LK 306 "Tilting Lamp", which have always been among the most distinctive lights in the Le Klint range.
In 1924, Kaare Klint became a lecturer, and from 1944 he taught as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he founded the School of Furniture. As an architect, he later worked on projects including Bethlehem Church in Copenhagen (1935–37) and the interior of the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen.
Kaare Klint's best-known furniture designs include a frame chair for the Faaborg Museum (1914), a chair in mahogany and Niger leather for the Danish Museum of Art & Design (1927), the Safari Chair (1933) and the church chair for Bethlehem Church (1936).
