Louis Poulsen VL 45 Radiohus Suspension Lamp
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Description
The VL 45 Radiohus Suspension Lamp is Vilhelm Lauritzen's 1930s design for the Danish Broadcasting House, produced today in the same mouth-blown opal glass as the original. The suspension version hangs on a single cord or rod and delivers uniform, diffused downward light. The three-layered opal glass ensures the lamp appears evenly lit across its surface. Available in opal white and pale rose glass variants. Designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen; produced by Louis Poulsen.
MEASUREMENTS:
Small
- Height: 24.6 cm / 9.7 inch
- Shade Height: 17.1 cm / 6.7 inch
- Shade Diameter: 17.2 cm / 6.7 inch
Medium
- Height: 32.7 cm / 12.9 inch
- Shade Height: 24.6 cm / 9.7 inch
- Shade Diameter: 25 cm / 9.8 inch
Large
- Height: 44.7 cm / 17.6 inch
- Shade Height: 37 cm / 14.6 inch
- Shade Diameter: 37 cm / 14.6 inch
All Sizes
- Cable Length: 366 cm / 144 inch
MATERIALS:
- Shade: Hand blown polished white opal glass
- Pendant Tube: Brushed Brass
HELPFUL NOTES:
- Small: 1 x 10W G16.5 candelabra socket
- Medium: 1 x 22W LED A-21 medium socket
- Large: 1 x 22W LED A-21 medium socket, 44W LED/3000K (DIM 0-10V)
- Ingress protection IP20
- Electric shock protection I with Ground
- Includes canopy
- cULus Listed
Designer
Vilhelm Lauritzen
1894 - 1984
Vilhelm Theodor Lauritzen was one of Denmark’s most important architects of his time and became one of the fathers of Danish Modernism. Today, many of his projects remain as lasting examples of what was then a new and revolutionary architecture in which form follows function. He studied butterflies with great enthusiasm, but he was first and foremost an architect and maintained through his career that architecture should be an applied art that serves all – not just the few and the privileged. Among Vilhelm Lauritzen’s most famous and acclaimed works are Copenhagen Airport’s first terminal (1939), which is today known as the Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal, the Radiohuset broadcasting building in Frederiksberg (1945), Vega – Folkets Hus cultural centre in Copenhagen (1956) and the Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1960).
Vilhelm Lauritzen was born on 10 September 1894 in the town of Slagelse, Denmark. He graduated high school from Sorø Akademi in 1912 and from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture in Copenhagen in 1921. The following year, he founded Tegnestuen Vilhelm Lauritzen (today Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects). Lauritzen’s Modernist talent also included interior design, where he created everything from door handles, ashtrays and railings to lamps, sofas, and chairs. The pendant lamps he designed for Radiohuset in the late 1930s were reissued by Louis Poulsen as the VL 45 Radiohus Pendant and remain in production today.
Brand
Louis Poulsen: PH 5, Artichoke, Panthella, AJ and the Science of Glare-Free Light
Louis Poulsen has produced functional lighting in Denmark since 1874. The company's design direction was set in 1924 by Poul Henningsen, whose PH system was built on one principle: the light source must never be directly visible. Every shade and reflector in the PH family exists to eliminate glare while delivering even, comfortable light. The collection extends to Arne Jacobsen's AJ series (1957), Verner Panton's Panthella (1971), and Oki Sato's NJP task lamps (2015).
GRShop is an authorized Louis Poulsen retailer in Canada, with delivery across the country and select pieces available at our Victoria showroom.
Shipping
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