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AJ Lamp – Louis Poulsen

Arne Jacobsen, 1957 

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Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

Arne Jacobsen designed the AJ Lamp for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen (Radisson Collection) in 1957. Today, the AJ lamp family is regarded as the design that the Danish architect is best known for all over the world. 

Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

At that time, the AJ lamp family comprised a table lamp, a small table lamp, a wall lamp, a floor lamp and a working lamp that was designed to attach to the table. In combination with the AJ Royal pendant, the AJ Lamp formed part of the overall design concept that Jacobsen created for the hotel. 

Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

Because Arne Jacobsen did not just design the hotel: he also designed the furnishings – including the famous Egg and Swan armchairs – the decoration and lighting down to the smallest detail.

Louis Poulsen – Applique AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

The profile of the AJ lamp, with its straight lines and its combination of oblique and right angles, is thus an assumed reference to the profile of the 3300 Series, as well as to the geometric lines of the architect's buildings.

Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

The profile of the AJ lamp, with its straight lines and combination of angles, is an assumed reference to the profile of the 3300 Series (armchair and sofa, also produced by Fritz Hansen), as well as to the geometric lines of the buildings of the architect.

AJ Mini Table Lamp (H43,3 cm)

Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Mini de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Mini de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

AJ Table lamp (H56 cm)

Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

AJ Floor lamp

Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

AJ Wall Lamp

Louis Poulsen – Applique AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Applique AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

AJ Mini Table Lamp (H43,3 cm)
Anniversary Edition

Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

In 2024, Louis Poulsen celebrates its 150th anniversary with a new edition of the iconic AJ, matt white on the outside and pale pink on the inside./.

Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Mini Lamp – Matt White / Pale Rose

Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampe AJ Table – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957
Louis Poulsen – Lampe AJ Table de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

Arne Jacobsen

‍Arne Jacobsen is born on February 11, 1902 in Copenhagen. His father, Johan Jacobsen, is a wholesale trader in safety pins and snap fasteners. His mother, Pouline Jacobsen, a bank clerk, paints floral motifs in her spare time. The family lived in a typical Victorian style home. As a contrast to his parents’ overly decorated taste, Arne paints his room in white.

‍He met the Lassen brothers at Nærum Boarding School: later, Flemming Lassen was to become his partner in a series of architectural projects. Arne Jacobsen is a restless pupil, always up to pranks, with a self-deprecating humour. Already as a child, he showed an extraordinary talent for drawing and depicting nature through scrupulous studies. He wants to be painter, but his father felt that architect was a more sensible choice.

‍Jacobsen’s travelling begin already in his twenties, when he went to sea to New York. Then followed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Germany and a series of study and drawing excursions to Italy. Jacobsen produced some of his finest watercolours during this period, capturing atmospheres and shapes accurately and carefully. From the beginning of his career, Jacobsen turned his gaze abroad, without abandoning Danish traditions.

‍Jacobsen production reflects his personality: an insistent, perfectionist modernist, to whom no detail was trivial, although the main picture was basically black/white and unambiguous. On the other hand, the nature-loving botanist and jovial family man: like him, his work is precise and warm, Danish and universal, modern and timeless.

Arne Jacobsen