Scandinavia Design
Louis Poulsen, Danish Design Lighting
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Danish Design Lighting

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

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

Arne Jacobsen did not just design the hotel down to the smallest detail for SAS (Scandinavian Airlines), he also designed almost all the hotel’s original furniture – such as the famous Egg chair and Swan chair –, the utility items and the lighting.

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

The profile of the AJ Lamp with its straight lines and its combination of oblique and right angles is not only seen as a formal parallel to the profile of the 3300 Series, but also to the geometric profiles of his building.

AJ / AJ Mini Table Lamp

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

AJ Table Lamp Height 56 cm – Light source 1 x E27  

AJ Mini Table Lamp Height 43.5 cm – Light source 1 x E14  

Material spun steel + die cast zinc 

Mounting plastic cord with plug, 2.4 m – Switch on lamp stand  

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

Fun fact: the round in the foot of the lamp was meant to receive an ashtray.

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Black

AJ Table Lamp Black

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – White

AJ Table Lamp White

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Light Grey

AJ Table Lamp Light Grey

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp Dark Grey

AJ Table Lamp Dark Grey

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp Pale Petroleum

AJ Table Lamp Pale Petroleum

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Dark Green

AJ Table Lamp Dark Green

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Rusty Red

AJ Table Lamp Rusty Red

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp Yellow Ochre

AJ Table Lamp Yellow Ochre

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Aubergine

AJ Table Lamp Aubergine

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp – Midnight Blue

AJ Table Lamp Midnight Blue

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

AJ Mini Table Lamp Polished Steel

AJ Table Lamp Polished Steel

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

Height 130 cm  Weight 3,4 kg
Shade adjustable vertically and horizontally - length 32.5 cm 

Light source 1 x E27  

Materials Shade: Spun steel. Base: Die cast zinc. Stem: Steel.

Cable 2,6 m – switch on cord

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

AJ Floor – Black

AJ Floor White

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor – Dark Grey

AJ Floor Light Grey

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor – Aubergine

AJ Floor Midnight Blue

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor – Rusty Red

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor Yellow Ochre

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor – Pale Petroleum

AJ Floor Dark Green

Lampadaire AJ – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Floor – Polished Steel

Louis Poulsen – Lampadaire AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

AJ Wall Lamp

Louis Poulsen – Applique AJ de Arne Jacobsen, 1957

Dimensions H18 x W33.5 cm. Shade: 24.7 cm

Materials Shade: Spun steel – Wall box: Spun steel – Arm: Steel

Finish wet painted

Mounting Cable type: Plastic cord with plug – Cable length: 2.4m – Light control: Switch in wallbox

Weight Min: 0.8 kg Max: 1.0 kg

Light source E14

Class Ingress protection IP20. Electric shock protection II w/o ground.

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

AJ Wall Lamp – White

AJ Wall Lamp Black

AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Wall Lamp – Dark Grey

AJ Wall Lamp Light Grey

AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Wall Lamp – Dark Green

AJ Wall Lamp Midnight blue

AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Wall Lamp – Pale Petroleum

AJ Wall lamp – Rusty Red

AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen
AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

AJ Wall lamp – Aubergine

AJ Wall lamp Yellow Ochre

AJ Wall Lamp – Arne Jacobsen – Louis Poulsen

 AJ Wall lamp - Polished stainless steel

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