Extensive new lamp series with BIG personality
In 2020, Louis Poulsen and BIG Ideas present a comprehensive new lamp series, Keglen. Distinctive design and classic, superior lighting quality will characterize the series.
The key pieces in the Keglen series are four pendants (Diams: 175 mm, 250 mm, 400 mm, and 650 mm). Each provides its very own diffusion of light using a curved glass insert, which is built into and adapted to each version of the shade.
"The main feature of the lamp is the organically-shaped glass that sits perfectly beneath the cone as a small water droplet that's been shaped by physics and cohesive forces in nature," says Jakob Lange, Partner, BIG Ideas.
This way, the distinctive cone-shaped shades ensure an attractive and glare-free downward light. The various versions provide the possibility of countless combinations in any interior, and can add visual interest to settings such as restaurants and meeting facilities. However, the pendants are just as beautiful on their own, providing simpler and more intimate lighting for the home. The lamps all have a discreet, uniform opening at the top that allows a little light to flow gently upward, emphasizing the structure of the cord.
This new lamp series is a further development of the "Tirpitz Pendant," which was the result of the first collaboration between Louis Poulsen and BIG Ideas. The pendant was created for the Tirpitz Museum in Blåvand, Denmark, which BIG designed for the Varde Museums in 2017.
Keglen is available with energy-saving LED lights. It comes in black and white.
The new Keglen series will be available in stores from February 2020.
About BIG Ideas
BIG Ideas, BIG’s technology-driven specialist product division, is managed by architect Jakob Lange. The division produces the practice’s lamps and other types of digital projects that underpin BIG’s designs, buildings, and ideas. BIG Ideas was established to gain increased influence on the built environment.
Bjarke Ingels Group was founded in 2005 by architect Bjarke Ingels, who continues to define architecture as "the art and science of ensuring that our cities and built environments suit the way in which we want to live our lives." Bjarke Ingels is driven by the idea of information-controlled design on the basis of thorough project analysis of applicable parameters in an ever-changing society. BIG is a globally-renowned architectural practice that has designed and completed award-winning buildings all over the world.
About Louis Poulsen
In 1924, Poul Henningsen created his influential Paris lamp for Louis Poulsen. The origin of how we still design to shape light can directly be traced back to his views on the dualities of design and light.
Founded in 1874, Louis Poulsen is a Danish lighting manufacturer born out of the Scandinavian design tradition where form follows function. The function and design of our products are tailored to reflect and support the rhythm of natural light. Every detail in the design has a purpose. Every design starts and ends with light.
We believe in passionate craftsmanship that produces quality lighting, and we design products that are pleasing to both the eye and to the light.
In close partnership with designers, architects, and other talents like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Øivind Slaatto, Alfred Homann, Oki Sato, and Louise Campbell, we have established ourselves as one of the key global suppliers of architectural and decorative lighting. Our products defy traditional product categories, serving and spanning the professional and private lighting markets for both indoor and outdoor applications.
Our means are simple and beautiful design. Our purpose is to create an attractive ambiance that affects people and spaces.
We design to shape light.