PH Dining Table, Chrome, Laminated Plate with Black Abs Edge

About the Item

The PH dining table was designed in 1937; it is simple and elegant. Function meets form and the distinctive, light look of the PH dining table makes it suitable for any purpose at the home, at work or in the meeting room. Measures: 1270 x 2370mm. The PH dining table can be ordered with a lightweight extension leaf enabling it to be transformed from smaller to a larger table with ease. When not in use the extension leaf stands vertically beneath the table top and does not impede upon the leg-room available. When both extension leaves are hanging vertically beneath the round table top, the two swing legs form a pleasingly distinctive design. The PH dining table is available with chromed legs and the table top in a variety of finishes: laminate, natural or black oak. The table tops are available in three different sizes or the table extension system.

Creator:

Poul Henningsen (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 50.01 in (127 cm)Depth: 93.31 in (237 cm)

Style:

Bauhaus (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Laminate

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: PH138 1 000 50091stDibs: LU5455221497532

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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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