Poul Henningsen

Poul Henningsen (1894, 1967) was a Danish designer, architect, and cultural critic best known for his iconic PH lamp series, developed in collaboration with Louis Poulsen from the 1920s onward. His designs were grounded in scientific principles of light diffusion, aimed at creating glare-free, warm illumination through a system of carefully calculated shades. Beyond design, Henningsen was a provocative intellectual and social commentator whose influence on Scandinavian modernism extended across architecture, film, and criticism.