Denmark) in 1928, the PH Septima was applauded. In 1931, Henningsen introduced a smaller version of it, based on the shade sizes from the PH 4/4. The two sizes were therefore named Septima 5 and 4. Sadly, because of a shortage of materials in the 1940s, very few examples of the PH Septima were produced at the time. The latest iteration has a 50cm diameter, based on the shade set of the Septima 5, and has been modernised to include a brass suspension, arms and canopy. During the development of the PH Septima, Henningsen designed a metal version that was never put into production. His drawings, however, formed the basis for the development of the PH Artichoke, designed about three decades later for the Langelinie Pavilion in Copenhagen.
The designer: Poul Henningsen Henningsen (1894–1967), familiarly known as PH, was born in Copenhagen to the famous Danish writer Agnes Henningsen.
He studied at the Technical School in Frederiksberg from 1911–14, and then at the Technical College in Copenhagen from 1914–17. He began by designing traditional functional architecture, but over the years he changed his focus to concentrate on lighting, the area for which is he is most celebrated. ‘From the age of I8, when I began to experiment with light,’ he once said, ‘I have been searching for harmony in lighting.’ He also expanded professionally into writing, becoming a journalist – he was the first editor of the LP company magazine
NYT – and an author. For a short period at the beginning of the Second World War, he was head architect of the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen. He was forced to flee Denmark during the German occupation, and became an important member of the Danish colony of artists living in Sweden.
His lifelong collaboration with Louis Poulsen began in 1925 and lasted until his death. His pioneering work on the relationship between light structures, shadows, glare and colour reproduction remain the foundation of the lighting theories still practised by Louis Poulsen. ‘His thinking about the way design shapes light has informed generations of lighting designers,’ said Rasmus Markholt, former LP product and design director, ‘not to mention the Louis Poulsen story.’
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