PH Artichoke Pendant

Poul Henningsen's PH Artichoke pendant for Louis Poulsen, lit from within so its copper leaves glow at the edges. Henningsen designed it in 1958 for the Langelinie Pavilion restaurant in Copenhagen: seventy-two copper leaves in twelve rows, each row staggered against the next. The overlaps are the point. From almost any angle you see lit metal rather than the bulb, the same glare-free goal as his three-shade lamps, scaled up into a sculpture for a dining room.