This was another text that we read for the exam.... que no digan, que sólo os pongo los fáciles XD
A Born Classic
A Born Classic
In 1926, Danish designer Poul Henningsen introduced the first PH-lamp. He then developed the lamp into an infinite number of forms and models. Today PH-lamps are world famous, and represent the supreme example of industrial design.
It took Poul Henningsen 10 years, but then it was there: the PH-lamp - original and different. Today, PH-lamps cast their glare-free glow on the entire world in private homes and public spaces, and in an infinite variety of models. PH has created lamps for everyone and for all purposes, making it one of the world's design icons. It's all due to Poul Henningsen, who not only created the association between form and function, but also invented a lamp that provides the perfect light.
Objects of investment
Seventy-five years after the prototype, Poul Henningsen's lamps are being sold as never before, with the PH-5 as the top seller. At auctions, the older, original lamps obtain top prices, having long become collectors' items and objects of investment. At museums, the PH-lamps hang like pearls on a chain. The genius of the PH-lamp is its glare-free light, which remains strong enough so that one can read and work by it. And the PH-lamp is beautiful, no matter whether as a small single table or ceiling lamp, as one of many multi-level chandeliers, or as the giant cones with brushed copper shades which Henningsen created for Copenhagen's Langelinepavillion restaurant.
Objects of investment
Seventy-five years after the prototype, Poul Henningsen's lamps are being sold as never before, with the PH-5 as the top seller. At auctions, the older, original lamps obtain top prices, having long become collectors' items and objects of investment. At museums, the PH-lamps hang like pearls on a chain. The genius of the PH-lamp is its glare-free light, which remains strong enough so that one can read and work by it. And the PH-lamp is beautiful, no matter whether as a small single table or ceiling lamp, as one of many multi-level chandeliers, or as the giant cones with brushed copper shades which Henningsen created for Copenhagen's Langelinepavillion restaurant.
Self-taught
The first PH-lamp was manufactured in 1926. Legend has it that Poul Henningsen created it over a cup of coffee. In reality the prototype was the result of 10 years of intensive studies and experiments. Henningsen was born in the glow of the petroleum lamp, but around World War I, when electric light began to spread, PH made it his mission to tame it. His first lamp experiments took place in the years 1915-1920. Already here one could sense Henningsen's obsession with the properties and potential of electrical systems.
Self-inflating bicycle!
Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) was a self-taught inventor and architect, who at age 14 had invented the world's highest stilts, and who a few years later designed a self-inflating bicycle. In 1924, in preparation for the Paris industrial design exhibition the following year, he took part in a competition on home lighting. Henningsen ended up winning six prizes. He himself thought it was because he knew one of the judges. But in the autumn, he demonstrated his great talent when he designed the first PH-lamp, constructed of three shades whereby the angle of light could be controlled.
Self-inflating bicycle!
Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) was a self-taught inventor and architect, who at age 14 had invented the world's highest stilts, and who a few years later designed a self-inflating bicycle. In 1924, in preparation for the Paris industrial design exhibition the following year, he took part in a competition on home lighting. Henningsen ended up winning six prizes. He himself thought it was because he knew one of the judges. But in the autumn, he demonstrated his great talent when he designed the first PH-lamp, constructed of three shades whereby the angle of light could be controlled.
Five years earlier, he had already indicated his brilliance when he constructed street lamps for the Slotsholm area of Copenhagen. The lamp spread the light in a radius seven times the height of the pole, and Henningsen's calculations were so precise that there were no dark spots between the fields of light. From the smallest lamp to the largest project, Paul Henningsen had shown that he was the master of lighting and lamp design. PH invented a principle which he continuously varied until his death, leaving us with more than 100 different designs of the PH-lamp.
Good design never goes out of style
The world of design has its fads and fly-by-night stars. But there are few born classics like the PH-lamps. For Poul Henningsen, it all happened via a fruitful and constructive cooperation with the electrical manufacturer Louis Poulsen, whose name is now synonymous with the PH-lamps. Poulsen began producing lamps in 1924 and began to cooperate with Poul Henningsen.
A PH-lamp is unique, and from the very beginning Poulsen ensured that PH-lamps would illuminate several continents. Poulsen carried out a determined marketing effort which ensured the PH-lamp steadily increasing popularity. It was primarily in the business world and in the public space that the first PH-lamps made an impact. Sales to private homeowners were somewhat slower, as Henningsen's designs were considered a bit too modern, and the light from the white opal shades regarded as much too cool. The quick-thinking Henningsen thought back to the era of the petroleum lamp, with its modulated, golden glow, and he started designing glass shades in warm colors such as yellow and red. His amber colored opal glass is the incarnation of the classic PH-lamp.
“PH” is a guarantee
Poul Henningsen devoted himself to developing, improving and perfecting the lamp which had made him world famous as a young man, and he was passionate when it concerned the importance of light for people. The story of the PH-lamps demonstrates that good design never goes out of style. Anything that can survive three-quarters of a century of competition is unique. Despite constant attempts at imitation, the real thing can never be duplicated. In a world of cheap imitations, the letters "PH" remain a guarantee of the highest quality.
“PH” is a guarantee
Poul Henningsen devoted himself to developing, improving and perfecting the lamp which had made him world famous as a young man, and he was passionate when it concerned the importance of light for people. The story of the PH-lamps demonstrates that good design never goes out of style. Anything that can survive three-quarters of a century of competition is unique. Despite constant attempts at imitation, the real thing can never be duplicated. In a world of cheap imitations, the letters "PH" remain a guarantee of the highest quality.
Battle against conventions
Poul Henningsen, 1894-1967, designer, architect, writer, multi-artist. On the background of the emancipated radical cultural environment of the 1920s he displayed great inventiveness in many fields. Famous for his "PH lamps", he also built functionalistic houses and was influential as the Tivoli architect from 1941. As a newspaper polemist and provocateur, he advocated freedom and naturalness of form in his permanent battle against conventions and moralising.
BY THE WAY... LO THE PH VIENE DE Poul Henningsen
y aquí si te fijas en el interior de las casas puedes ver las PH en cualquier habitación
COOL
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