Poul Christiansen
Poul Christiansen revolutionized Le Klint lighting design. The well-known architect belonged to the group of designers who were hired by the Danish lighting manufacturer in the 1960s to provide new ideas, and which led to Le Klint breaking with its tradition of only producing lights devised by the Klint family, designs based a straight pleated scheme with transverse lines. Poul Christiansen brought the idea that the beauty of mathematical curves to Le Klint lampshades and created very unique, sculptural objects. The Model 172 pendant light is the result of a composition of sine waves folded by hand from just one sheet of the special plastic film.
After studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Poul Christiansen was initially able to give free rein to his artistic spirit in the office of Ib & Jørgen Rasmussen, those architects were responsible for the Kevi castor and the reinterpretation of the Kevi chair.
With his own label Komplot Design, Christiansen has dared bold designs with innovative materials, processes and technologies from the very beginning, in which functionality merges with beautiful design and a passion for detail.
The label was founded by Poul Christiansen and Boris Berlin in 1987. Since then, according to the motto "Experiments lead to innovative solutions", extraordinary furniture, lighting and home accessories have been developed and produced.
Poul Christiansen became active again for Le Klint in the early 2000s and created the meteoric model 181, which is also named Comet Pendant and which is hand-made using the perfect Le Klint folding technique.