Poulsen Ph4
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
Vintage 1980s Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and...
Metal
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome, Aluminum, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and...
Metal, Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Copper
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Vintage 1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome, Steel, Aluminum
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and...
Chrome, Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and...
Chrome
Vintage 1920s Danish Scandinavian Modern Floor Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Early 20th Century Danish Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Copper
Vintage 1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Copper, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers an...
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers an...
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
Vintage 1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
Vintage 1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Copper, Enamel
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Late 20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Aluminum, Brass, Steel
Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Steel, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and...
Copper
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Poul Henningsen for sale on 1stDibs
The name Poul Henningsen is synonymous with the best and most innovative modern Scandinavian lamps and other lighting. The Danish designer created a signature vocabulary of fixtures with tiered and layered shades in sculptural arrangements that are at once naturalistic and geometric.
Henningsen grew up in a town on the outskirts of Copenhagen and studied architecture at the Technical University of Denmark. He would become a noted art critic, journalist and screenwriter, but his first love was lighting design.
Henningsen’s childhood home was illuminated by oil lamps. When his family switched to electrified lighting, he was alarmed and repelled by the harsh glare cast by an incandescent bulb, and in his late teens he began conducting quasi-scientific experiments to measure which materials and methods best diffused or reflected light to give it a warm brightness. His work came to the attention of the lighting-fixtures firm Louis Poulsen, which sponsored the development of a prototype lamp. The design won a gold medal at the 1925 Paris Expositions Internationales des Arts Decóratifs et Industriels Modernes — from which the term Art Deco derives. The lamp, whose three-part shade is said to be inspired by the arrangement of a dinner plate atop a soup bowl atop a teacup, became the basis for Henningsen’s most successful design, the PH 4/3 desk lamp.
All told, Henningsen would design some 100 lighting fixtures in his career. Some of his most notable creations are hanging lamps, which include the Septima (1929), a pendant composed of seven graduated frosted-glass layers; the Spiral (1942), made of a single ribbon of enameled aluminum; and the Artichoke lamp (1958), whose 70 glass or metal fins in a staggered and graduated arrangement on a central steel frame resemble those of its namesake. The last is likely Henningsen’s masterwork and an icon of mid-20th-century design. Like all Henningsen lighting designs, it is striking, sculptural and — thanks to his insistence on the primacy of the quality of the light cast — superbly functional.
Find a collection of authentic Poul Henningsen table lamps, floor lamps and other lighting on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Lighting for You
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.