31.1.2012 von admin.

I`m going to write something about Flos. It`s a ligh designer brand and we also have it in stock so I had the idea of writing something about it.

The designers of Flos are Achille Castiglioni, Antonio Citterio, Edward Barber, Gino Sarfatti, Jasper Morrison, Jay Osgerby, Joris Laarman, Konstantin Grcic, Laurene Leon Boym, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, Marcello Ziliani, Paolo Rizzatto, Patricia Urquiola, Philippe Starck, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Piero Lissioni (also designs a lot of stuff for Living Divani), Ron Gilad, Sebastian Wrong, Tim Derhaag, Tobia Scarpa, Johanna Grawunder, Knud Holscher, Jorge Herrera and R. & E. Boutoullec.

Flos won the Good Design Arward for lighting with their Kelvin LED light which designed Antonio Citterio.

Here is a picture of it.

I think the light is really nice, it is not classic but it is made easy and it looks great on a desk. You can also buy it in white.

Also Flos has a new store in Los Angeles, Carlifornia. They are really exited because LA is a really popular place where many celebritys live and go shopping so maybe someone known is coming to their store.

Source: http://www.flos.com/Int-de-GoodDesign

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30.1.2012 von admin.

HAY was is Paris from the 20 to the 24. They were in the Maison & Obeject Paris. I`ll put some pictures of HAY in the blog so you can see what I am talking about.

We blog about HAY because we have this brand new in stock. Actually not really new but since the last time we blogged we got it in.

HAY is a danish design brand and its really colourful. It`s not classic, as all the other stuff in our reed and simon store, and it freshes up every room.

The furniture and the accesoires are made simple with not much material but also with a lot of creativity and love to the design.

On the webside www.apartmenttherapy.com they wrote about the maison & object. They said that HAY didn`t dissapointed them. Expecialy the boxes (photo in the blog) they liked really much.

Sources: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-latest-from-paris-maison-objet-highlights-maison-objet-2012-164795 ,

http://hay.dk/#/site/news/milano2011after

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25.5.2011 von admin.

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11.3.2010 von admin.

REEDANDSIMON’S NEW PARTNER

For more than seventy years, Louis Poulsen has collaborated with visionary architects and designers to produce innovative lighting solutions for buildings and their surroundings. The superior styling, craftsmanship and quality of Louis Poulsen products can be found on prominent projects around the globe.

Louis Poulsen Lighting DK

1874	Ludvig R. Poulsen sets up a wine importing business under the name Kjøbenhavns direkte Vin-Import-Kompagni (The Copenhagen Direct Wine Import Company). The firm closes down in 1878.
1891	Denmark’s first electric power station opens in Odense.
1892	Denmark’s second power station opens in central Copenhagen, and Ludvig R. Poulsen opens his second business, this time selling tools and electrical supplies.
1896	Ludvig R. Poulsen hires his nephew, Louis Poulsen.
1906	Ludvig R. Poulsen dies. His nephew Louis takes over the business and, two years later, moves it to Nyhavn 11, which is still the domicile of the company’s headoffice today.
1911	Sophus Kaastrup-Olsen becomes a partner in the firm, whose name is changed to Louis Poulsen & Co.
1914	Louis Poulsen & Co. publishes its first catalogue - featuring machines and tools.
1917	Sophus Kaastrup-Olsen buys Louis Poulsen’s share in the firm for 10,000 Danish kroner and becomes the sole owner of Louis Poulsen & Co (Louis Poulsen).
1918	The industrial and agricultural sectors are utilising electricity to an increasing degree: Louis Poulsen’s turnover exceeds five million kroner.
1924	Designer Poul Henningsen begins working together with Louis Poulsen with a view to taking part in an international exhibition for decorative art to be held in Paris called “Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs & Industriels Modernes”. A competition is held to find qualified participants: Henningsen is one of the winners.  Poul Henningsen
1925	Poul Henningsen’s lamps win a gold medal at the exhibition.
1926	Louis Poulsen and Poul Henningsen are awarded a contract to provide lighting for the newly constructed Forum building in Copenhagen using the now-legendary PH lamp with three shades. Louis Poulsen starts marketing light fittings, and its first lighting catalogue is published with descriptions in Danish, German, English and French.
1929	Louis Poulsen distributes Henningsen’s lamps through agents abroad in most of Europe and in North and South America, Africa and Asia.
1933	The first wholesale electrical supplies business opens in Jutland (Denmark).
1938	Sophus Kaastrup-Olsen dies and Emun Rager becomes managing director.
1939	Louis Poulsen & Co. becomes a limited company: Louis Poulsen & Co. A/S.
1941	Louis Poulsen & Co. A/S acquires the Laurits Henriksen metal goods factory in Copenhagen and becomes a manufacturer of lighting fittings. The first issue of LP-NYT is published with Poul Henningsen as editor. Henningsen designs a blackout lamp for the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen which allows the Gardens to stay open until midnight: the light from the lamps cannot be seen from aeroplanes flying over the city.  Tivoli 1941
1958	The PH5 lamp is launched: the 5 in its name refers to its 50 cm diameter.
1959	Louis Poulsen’s new building at Sluseholmen in Copenhagen is inaugurated. It will be used for fluorescent lamp assembly and as a warehouse for electrical supplies. Jens Kaastrup-Olsen is appointed managing director.
1962	The first lighting subsidiary outside Denmark is set up in Western Germany.
1964	The wholesale sales division grows with the acquisition of A/S Classen-Smidth, who provides Louis Poulsen with branches in Odense and Vejle. A lighting subsidiary is established in France.
1965	The Laurits Henriksen metal goods factory changes its name to Elpefa A/S.
1967	The partnership I/S El-Salg is founded.
1969	Elpefa A/S moves to a new factory building at Sluseholmen and takes over all production and assembly of fixtures and fittings.
1975	A lighting subsidiary is set up in Sweden.
1976	Hans Cordes is appointed managing director after the death of Jens Kaastrup-Olsen.
1977	The metal goods manufacturer Elpefa A/S merges with Louis Poulsen. Louis Poulsen class B shares are quoted on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange for the first time.
1978	The wholesale electrical supplies warehousing function moves from Sluseholmen to two new locations outside Copenhagen. The old warehouse building is converted for production use.
1981	Louis Poulsen purchases the S.C. Sørensen company’s wholesale electrical supplies division, thereby taking over eight wholesale electrical supplies outlets.
1984	The trade and engineering firm Elpefa Handels- og Ingeniørfirma A/S is founded.
1985	A lighting subsidiary in the USA, a wholesale electrical supplies business in the Faroe Islands, and JO-EL A/S are set up.  Louis Poulsen Lighting, Inc.

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10.12.2009 von admin.

From this day on, you can experience the Fritz Hansen Shop in Shop in our showroom. Come and see some swans ants and eggs!

ARNE JACOBSEN_ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER  ( 1902-1971 )

1902-71
Arne Jacobsen is the Danish architect who master the most personal and successful interpretation of the international functionalism. His architecture includes a considerable number of epochmaking buildings in both Denmark, Germany and Great Britain. Arne Jacobsen initially trained as a mason before studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, graduating in 1927.

From 1927 until 1930, he worked in the architectural office of Paul Holsoe. In 1930, he established his own design office, which he headed until his death in 1971, and worked independently as an architect, interior, furniture, textile and ceramics designer. He was proffessor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, from 1956 onwards. His best known projects are St. Catherine´s College, Oxford, and the SAS Hotel, Copenhagen.

Arne Jacobsen´s designs came into existence as brief sketches and were then modelled in plaster or cardboard in full size. He kept on working until his revolutionary ideas for new furniture had been realized at the utmost perfection. The “Ant” from 1952 became the starting point of his world fame as a furniture designer and became the first of a number of lightweight chairs with seat and back in one oiece of moulded wood.

Model “3107″ from 1955 is often merely called ” The Number Seven Chair”. It was launched in beech, black and white. The colour scale has through the years been further developed by a.o. the Danish architect Verner Panton and the Danish painter Poul Gernes 1925-96 and today includes a variety of colours in lacquer or lazure as well as beech, maple, ash, and cherry. “3107″ has become the most important success in Danish furniture history - manufactured in more than 5 million copies.

The Royal Hotel 1956-61, situated in Copenhagen, is one of Arne Jacobsen´s masterpieces. For the decoration of the hotel he designed several pieces of furniture, lamps and fabrics, and also cutlery, glasses, and door handles. As significant counterpoints to the stiffly upright, monumental building his easy chair, the “Swan” and the “Egg”, stand out as organic sculptures.

During the 1960´es Arne Jacobsen turned to forms as the circle, cylinder, triangle, and cubus. On the whole, his mind as an architect began to influence his design. Both the stainless steel tableware set “Cylinda-Line” and the lamp series “AJ” reflect this. Common to all Arne Jacobsen´s designs is that they have become international design classics.

“The Ant” and “The Number Seven” ´chairs made Arne Jacobsen world famous as a furniture designer and made Fritz Hansen an international manufacturer of design and quality furniture. Fritz Hansen´s collection of timeless furniture includes both well-known Danish classics and more recent furniture series designed by Danish and international designers.

SOURCE_WWW.SCANDINAVIANDESIGN.COM

PETROL STATION_KYSTVEJEN 1936

DANISH NATIONAL BANK_1970

CITY HALL MAINZ_1973

THE EGG 1958

THE SWAN 1958

THE ANT 1952

LILY 1970

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10.11.2009 von admin.

Designer Tobias Grau
Entwurfsjahr 2009

FALLING IN LOVE – eine Lichtkugel in einem Nest liegend - stellt das Licht auf den Kopf.

Im Regal, auf dem Boden, auf einer Konsole, Licht auf Bilder - FALLING IN LOVE bietet viele Möglichkeiten. In der Ø 8cm großen Kugel sind neueste LEDs integriert, leistungsstark und mit bester Farbwiedergabe.
Es gibt sie in den Ausführungen aluminium poliert oder in schwarz, mit einer schwarzen oder gelben Zuleitung auf einem roten, blauen oder schwarzen Nest.

SOURCE_Architonic.COM ID 1075746

www.tobias-grau.com

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