Press Release About Henning Koppel and the BUBI-Lamp

Press release about Henning Koppel and the BUBI-lamp

Henning Koppel 1918-1981 Henning Koppel, the world-famous Danish designer of the BUBI lamp, was first and foremost an artist. He was trained in drawing and sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Rancon in Paris, but began designing silverworks for Georg Jensen in 1945. Koppel innovated the Danish silver tradition and made Georg Jensen a leader in modern Scandinavian design.

With his flowing and organic jewellery designs and sculptural silverwork, Koppel was a master of design. Perhaps the most famous exponent of his talent is his Silver Fish Platter from 1954. The elegant lines of the platter have made it one of his best-known works. Today the platter is produced only by special order and the price is around one million Danish kroner.

Henning Koppel also designed porcelain pieces, clocks, glass, furniture and lamps for various highly renowned companies. Pandul, the Danish lighting company, has now relaunched one of his most famous lamps, the BUBI lamp, in a beautiful 2010 version.

Henning Koppel was an artist of international stature with the ability to create unique shapes that elevate his designs to classics that delight generation after generation.

The BUBI lamp is available with a chrome top and cords in several colours for about DKK 1,795 in leading furniture and lighting stores. For a complete list of dealers, please see www.pandul.dk

It is said that the unique, organic shape of the BUBI lamp was created one sunny summer day when Henning Koppel made a drawing of his very young grandson in his beautiful garden. Although the grandson’s bucket hat inspired the basic shape of the new pendant lamp, it bears the unmistakable mark of several of Koppel’s renowned silverwork pieces for Georg Jensen.

The BUBI light presents its shape beautifully from all angles. Hang it high or low, place it on the floor, on tables or shelves; single, in pairs or groups. In all cases it gives a good anti-dazzle light and is very well suited for low energy fluorescent light bulbs.