PH Circle Table, Natural Oakwood Legs, Laminated Plate

About the Item

The intricately shaped legs of the PH circle table – inspired by the agile movement of the scarab beetle, together with the benefit of precision design and engineering – enable Poul Henningsen to design a table with the most unobtrusive of legs. Measures: 1270 x 1820mm. A triumph of aesthetic design as well as function, even the smallest apartments can be accommodating this table, which with its extension leaves, easily provides additional capacity for extra guests. For daily use, the smaller circle is perfect and very pleasant to sit at with plenty of space for legs, yet when friends are coming over or family is gathering together this piece can be transformed into a spacious table. The PH circle table is a piece of furniture that will be coveted by this and many generations to come. Designed in the 1930s, yet it is so contemporary and modern in finishing and look. The PH circle table comes in three different sizes in addition to the extension system and with a variety of finishes of the table tops: natural oak, black oak or laminated. The solid wood legs are available in natural or black oak.

Creator:

Poul Henningsen (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 50.01 in (127 cm)Depth: 71.66 in (182 cm)

Style:

Bauhaus (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Laminate,Oak

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

2010-

Date of Manufacture:

2023

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

8-9 weeks

Condition:

Seller Location:

Copenhagen, DK

Reference Number:

Seller: PH223 0 703 50011stDibs: LU5455221497092

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Poul Henningsen

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.

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