Louise Campbell Collage 450 Pendant

About the Item

Collage 450 was designed by Louise Campbell in 2009, and extends the Collage family. Collage 450 is a scaled-down version of Collage 600, launched in 2005. Collage was displayed for the first time at an exhibition at the Copenhagen Furniture Fair in 2004, along with Campbell 275 and 14 other experimental light prototypes presenting new ways of interpreting light. Louise Campbell has always been very preoccupied with daylight in her work with lighting. Her aim with Collage Pendant was therefore to imitate daylight. As Campbell expresses it: The most obvious contrast between daylight and artificial light is that nature only has one light source, and you never look directly into it. Our perception of light is based on countless natural layers which filter and reflect the light. These observations have been integrated into Collage. The number of layers within the Collage 450 has been increased to allow the pattern, light and shadows to more closely replicate the uncontrollable light seen in nature.

Creator:

Louis Poulsen (Manufacturer),Louise Campbell (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 11.3 in (28.71 cm)Diameter: 17.7 in (44.96 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Plated

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

2021

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

8-9 weeks

Condition:

Seller Location:

Berkeley, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1353223357982

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Louis Poulsen is world-renowned as an innovator in modern Danish lighting, but this wasn’t the goal from the start. Founded in 1874 by Ludvig R. Poulsen as a wine importer, the business went through several incarnations before its first pendant lights came to fruition. Through its designs, the company helped establish the foundations of good lighting — function, comfort and ambience — that are now standard in modern furniture design.

In 1924, Danish architect Poul Henningsen partnered with Louis Poulsen & Co., then an electrical supply company, to create what’s now known as the Paris lamp. This design, which incorporated three layers of curved metal disks, created ambience with its indirect light instead of glare. Shown at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris — the exhibition that brought Art Deco design to worldwide attention — the Paris lamp was awarded a gold medal. This led to Poulsen and Henningsen working together on several lighting pieces, including the popular PH pendant light with its concentric shades for the Forum Building in Copenhagen. These high-profile projects helped make Louis Poulsen a go-to purveyor of innovative lighting design.

One of the company’s most well-known lamps is Henningsen’s PH Artichoke lamp (1958), with its 72 copper leaves artfully placed to conceal the light bulb, prevent glare and promote a warm, alluring glow in any room. Another is the steel and die-cast zinc AJ lamp (1960), which Arne Jacobsen designed with an adjustable angled shade for his commission for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The company has also worked with notables such as Verner Panton and Alfred Homann as well as, more recently, Louise Campbell and Oki Sato.

In 2010, the company was awarded the American Institute of Architects’ Honors in Collaborative Achievement Award; it was the first lighting manufacturer to receive this honor. In 2018, the company was acquired by an investment subsidiary of Investindustrial VI L.P. Still headquartered in Denmark, the brand continues to produce its high-end lighting for both indoor and outdoor use, manufacturing both classic icons as well as new designs. “We design to shape light,” states Louis Poulsen. In doing so, they have also shaped culture.

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