Danish Lights - Malene Lytken - Books - Strandberg Publishing - 9788793604674 - November 22, 2019
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Danish Lights 1st edition

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Danish Lights 1st edition

Lamp design is a field that continues to attract great attention, from both designers and design aficionados. Many books have come out on iconic Danish design, but this is the first to focus exclusively on Danish lamps.
With Poul Henningsen’s iconic PH-lamp as its point of departure the book tells the stories behind 100 Danish lamp designs through text and images. The book introduces the reader to the inventions that enabled the first revolutionizing light sources: from the development of oil and gas lamps to the culmination in the late 19th century with the advent of incandescent light bulbs and Scandinavian functionalism. Lighting is a key element in ‘hygge’ – a warm, cosy ambience – and although Henningsen was a functionalist to the core, he had no intention of doing away with hygge. Hygge is a hot topic today, both in Denmark and abroad. Danish lamp design is not only about form. Although hard-core functionalists called for form to follow function, and function alone, real-life factors required them to compromise, and this compromise came to define Danish lamp design: hygge is a crucial quality that has to be included in the design. Thus, the purpose of the modern Danish lamp was– and is – not only to provide light but also to act as a decorative element and to spread a cosy ambience in Danish homes.


1920 to Now

Media Books     Bound Book   (Bound book with hard cover in high quality)
Released Danmark, November 22, 2019
ISBN13 9788793604674
Publishers Strandberg Publishing
Genre Textbooks     Architecture & Design
Pages 272
Dimensions 212 × 312 × 27 mm   ·   1.44 kg
Language English  
Original language Danish
Cover Artist Søren Damstedt, trefold

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