Louis Poulsen VL Ring Crown Floor Lamp

Introduced in 2025, the VL Ring Crown Floor and Table lamps honour the original VL Ring Crown series, which has a history spanning over 80 years. The VL Ring Crown lamps are part of a series that include a pendant, chandeliers and wall lamps, created by the Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen for Radiohuset (The Radio House), headquarters of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, which was inaugurated just after World War II ended in 1945. Staying true to the original design and materials, the VL Ring Crown Floor and Table lamps feature polished brass and glossy, three-layered, mouth-blown opal white glass shades, beautifully complementing the lamp designs originally installed in Radiohuset. Vilhelm Lauritzen also designed the VL 38, VL Studio and VL 45 lamps for Radiohuset.

MEASUREMENTS:

• Height: 51.7 inch / 131.3 cm
• Length: 9.4 inch / 23.9 cm
• Shade Diameter: 7.5 inch / 19.1 cm
• Cord Length: 10 ft / 3.2 m

MATERIALS:

• Glossy, Mouth-blown, 3-layered, polished opal glass
• Satin polished brass

HELPFUL NOTES:

• Offers direct downward light through the opening at the bottom of the glossy, mouth-blown glass shade
• The three-layered opal white glass provides soft, diffused and uniform illumination that surrounds the lamp, ensuring pleasant, glare-free lighting and an inviting ambience
• 3.2 m white textile cord with plug, foot switch on the cord

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.

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