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P.V. Jensen
P. V Jensen was a Bachelor of Engineering, an architect and a painter. He has left two outstanding acheivements. One is the Grundtvig Church in Copenhagen and the other is the cross pleated lamp shade which 40 years later went into production under the company name LE KLINT.
Pivotal to the success of the company are the skilled pleaters who translate each design into actual production.
Many Architects and Designers have contributed to the success of Le Klint and they are listed below:
Tage Klint: 1884-1953
Kaare Klint 1888-1954
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen: 1897-1958
Mogens Koch: 1998-1992
Edvard Kindt-Larsen:1901-1982
Henning Seidelin: 1904-1987
Aage Petersen: 1902-1986
Tove Kindt-Larsen: 1906-1994
Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen: 1907-1993
Esben Klint: 1915-1969
Erik Hansen: 1916-1982
Peter Hvidt:1916-1986
Vilhelm Wohlert: 1920-
Andreas Hansen: 1936
Poul Seest Pedersen: 1941
Michael Bang: 1944
Flemming Agger: 1944
Christian Hvidt: 1946
Poul Christiansen: 1947 -
Thomas Krause: 1959-
Philip Bro Ludvigsen: 1962-
Tage Klint: 1884-1953
Tage Klint, the son of P. V. Jensen Klint, was the creative entrepreneur who turned the Klint family’s activities into a business establishing the commercial foundations of the LE Klint company.
Tage Klint, a chartered surveyor came to Odense in 1920 at the request of Thomas B. Thrige to work on the “Triangel” car factory. Settleing in Odense he also founded the firms of Lactosan and Sanovo.
Tage Klint was the designer of the unique collar fitted to the original Klint shades the that uses the elasticity of the material to hold the lamp firmly in place on a stand. A number of lamps designed by Tage Klint are still in the LE KLINT range.
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Kaare Klint 1888-1954
Kaare Klint was a pupil of the architect Carl Petersen and his father P.V. Jensen Klint, whom he succeeded as architect of the Grundtvig Church and whose work on LE KLINT’s lamp shades he continued.
Kaare Klint designed the fittings for LE KLINT’s shop on Store Kirkestræde, and he supplied drawings for numerous lamp shades, some of which are still among the most striking designs in LE KLINT’s product range.
He became a university lecturer in 1924 and from that year onwards was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he founded the Department of Furniture Design.
He was the architect of the Bethlehem Church in Copenhagen (1935-37) and responsible for the interior design of the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen (together with Ivar Bentsen bewteen 1921-26).
Kaare Klint’s best-known furniture designs include a chair for Faaborg Museum (1914), a chair in mahogany and leather for the Danish Museum of Decorative Art (1927), the Safari Chair (1933), and the Church Chair for the Bethlehem Church (1936).
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Gunnar Biilmann Petersen: 1897-1958
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen is one of the great figures Danish design. He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Decorative Art and subsequently worked as an architect. However. His most important contribution to Danish design history are in the graphic arts.
His work covers everything from posters, bank notes and logos, to Jens Olsen’s World Clock in Copenhagen’s City Hall.
Alongside his design work, Biilmann Petersen concerned himself with education and research. He was the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ first design professor appointed in 1951.
Biilmann Petersen worked on various table-lamp designs for LE KLINT, some of which are still in the product range.
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Mogens Koch: 1998-1992
Mogens Koch graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, was appointed an associate professor in 1940 and later worked as a professor of architecture from 1950 to 1968 in cooperation with Kaare Klint from 1925 to 1930.
Mogens Koch was known for his classic designs not only in the field of furniture but also in architecture, textiles, silverware, and typography.
He designed pendant model 105 for LE KLINT.
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Edvard Kindt-Larsen:1901-1982
The architect Edvard Kindt-Larsen produced a wide range of work in cooperation with his wife, Tove Kindt-Larsen. Making an ever increasing contribution to design over many years. The couple shared an astute sense of quality and an ability to work in a recognised idiom that precisely coincided with the taste of the day.
As a newly qualified architect, Edvard Kindt-Larsen had caused a stir with his lavishly conceived gold medal project for a large hotel by the lakes in Copenhagen, and continued to attention on a regular basis with his buildings, especially his own house in Klampenborg in 1962.
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Henning Seidelin: 1904-1987
Henning Seidelin trained out as a sculptor. His naturalistic groups of figures testify to a marked feeling for mass in space, and some have bold lines that demonstrate his precise instinct for composition.
Later Henning Seidelin became an industrial designer and created classics in cutlery, kitchenware and dinner services, as well as designing furniture, stoves, as well as lamps for LE KLINT.
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Aage Petersen: 1902-1986
Aage Petersen trained as a sculptor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked on a wide range of subjects in his naturalistic sculptures. His most outstanding work is the Faxe Monument of 1938.
Aage Petersen was also responsible for wall decorations at Copenhagen Zoological Gardens and lamp designs, including several models for LE KLINT.
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Tove Kindt-Larsen: 1906-1994
Tove Kindt-Larsen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked on furniture design prior to her marriage with Edvard Kindt-Larsen. Their marriage in 1937 signalled the start of a collaboration that was to put them in the first rank as designers, not just of furniture, but also silver flatware, jewellery, textiles and lamps for LE KLINT.
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Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen: 1907-1993
A graduate of the Department of Furniture Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen was founder and co-owner of the Hvidt & Mølgaard firm of architects.
Together with his partner, Peter Hvidt, he worked on furniture, interior design, buildings and consultancy assignments for major bridge projects. Their best-know piece of furniture is the Ax Chair created for Fritz Hansen. Co-operation with LE KLINT resulted in several lamp models.
^top
Esben Klint: 1915-1969
Esben Klint was the son of Kaare Klint. Although receiving a rounded education from several of the leading architects of the day he remained very much his father’s pupil. His fathers influence is particularly evident in his church fittings and the furniture he designed together with Børge Mogensen.
He designed a number of lamp shades for LE KLINT, many of which are still in the product range.
^top
Erik Hansen: 1916-1982
Erik Hansen designed the first “scissor lamp” for LE KLINT. For many people, the classic shade, beautifully combined with natural woods, is synonymous with LE KLINT.
There have been many copies of the “scissor lamp”, but there is only one original.
^top
Peter Hvidt:1916-1986
Peter Hvidt was founder and co-owner of the Hvidt & Mølgaard firm of architects.
Together with his partner, Orla Mølgaard, he did pioneering work in the industrial manufacture of furniture and Danish furniture making in the 1950s. Their architectural idiom is bright, clear and simple.
Their buildings are worked out down to the last detail, setting their stamp on the furnishings and interior design. Their best-known piece of furniture is the Ax Chair created for Fritz Hansen. Cooperation with LE KLINT resulted in several lamp models.
^top
Vilhelm Wohlert: 1920-
Vilhelm Wohlert trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he was a pupil of Kaare Klint. He was appointed Professor of Architecture in 1968 a position he held until 1986. He was made an honorary member by the institution in 2001.
His most important work includes the renovation of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Louisiana, Museum Bochum, Gustav Lübcke Museum and a large number of other architectural commissions and restoration projects.
He has been awarded the Small Gold Medal of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Eckersberg Medal, the Society for Architectural and Scenic Culture Prize and a number of other international honours.
Vilhelm Wohlert designed a lamp for LE KLINT as part of the interior design for Niels Bohr’s honorary residence in Copenhagen.
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Andreas Hansen: 1936-
Andreas Hansen trained at Ringe becoming a skilled cabinet maker in 1956. He then attended the Kunsthandvrerkerskolen (The School of Arts and Crafts, Denmark ) Graduating in 1962.
He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark 1962-1963. Undertaking study tours to Florence, Rome and Venice. During this period he worked for the architects Mogens Koch and Vilhelm Wohlert.
In 1968 up to 1988 he returned to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, as a teacher, a role he also undertook between 1970 - 1973 at Denmark's Design School. In 1974 he went on a study tour of Egypt.
He has had his own company since 1963 designing furniture, lighting including several designs for Le Klint.
^top
Poul Seest Pedersen: 1941
Poul Seest Pedersen trained at the School of Arts Crafts and Design. He works with sculpture, experimental and industrial design, packaging, logos, trademarks, pictograms, graphic adaptation, etc.
He established his own design studio and model workshop in 1970, teaching at Denmark's Design School between 1987 to 1992.
Poul Seest Pedersen was awarded the LE KLINT Fund Grant in 1979 and has since developed 14 models for LE KLINT.
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Michael Bang: 1944
Michael Bang originally trained as a ceramicist but after a couple of years at Ekenäs Glasbruk he choose glass as his exclusive artistic medium.
In 1968 he became a permanent designer at the Kastrup and Holmegaard glassworks tasked with developing the future production in a more artistic direction.
Michael Bang has also carried out a number of decorative projects, including at the SiD School in Svendborg and De Forenede Eddikebryggerier in Copenhagen.
^top
Flemming Agger: 1944
Flemming Agger has designed a number of metal lamps for LE KLINT. The combination of classic shades and Flemming Agger’s designs were an immediate success. In 1979 model 368 was launched at the Gothenburg fair. A classic was born, and model 368 is still the best-selling floor lamp in the history of LE KLINT.
^top
Christian Hvidt: 1946
Christian Hvidt qualified as an engineer in 1971, having specialised in product development. In 1981 he took over working with LE KLINT from his father, the architect Peter Hvidt, MAA, of Hvidt & Mølgaard A/S. This continuing cooperation has led to a number of new LE KLINT models.
Christian Hvidt has held a number of important honorary posts in the design industry and has his own design studio working as a freelance designer for Danish and foreign firms designing mainly furniture and lighting.
^top
Poul Christiansen: 1947 -
Poul Christiansen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture.
He worked in architecture and design for Ib & Jørgen Rasmussen from 1977 to 1986. He founded “Komplot Design”, together with Boris Berlin in 1987.
Between 1969 and 1987 Poul Christiansen brought innovative and exciting dimensions to LE KLINT’s lamp shades. Prior to his involvement the shades had been folded in pleats and in straight lines across the pleats. Poul Christiansen discovered that folding in mathematical curves gave the lamp shades beautiful and unique sculptural shapes.
His most famous creation is the SinusLine series, which he developed by combining sine curves in such a way that they formed a lamp shade when folded.
Poul Christiansen continues to design new lamps for LE KLINT.
^top
Thomas Krause: 1959-
Thomas Krause trained at the Danish School of Art and Design and has since obtained a Master of Arts Degree in industrial design from the Royal College of Art in London.
His work covers a broad range of industrial design from furniture, packaging, toys and signs to glass and kitchenware for a variety of companies including Lego, Bang & Olufsen, Ikea, Carlsberg and Danske Bank. Thomas Krause has designed a number of models for LE KLINT, including new interpretations of old designs.
^top
Philip Bro Ludvigsen: 1962-
Philip Bro Ludvigsen qualified from the Danish School of Art and Design in 1989 and has taught at Denmark's Design School and the National Institute of Design in India.
Philip Bro Ludvigsen works on a broad spectrum of product design ranging from small gift items, through lighting, to large interior design projects. His clients include Georg Jensen, Unique Interiør, Royal Copenhagen, Ikea and, of course, LE KLINT.
He has his own design studio “philip bro design”.
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P. V Jensen was a Bachelor of Engineering, an architect and a painter. He has left two outstanding acheivements. One is the Grundtvig Church in Copenhagen and the other is the cross pleated lamp shade which 40 years later went into production under the company name LE KLINT.
Pivotal to the success of the company are the skilled pleaters who translate each design into actual production.
Many Architects and Designers have contributed to the success of Le Klint and they are listed below:
Tage Klint: 1884-1953
Kaare Klint 1888-1954
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen: 1897-1958
Mogens Koch: 1998-1992
Edvard Kindt-Larsen:1901-1982
Henning Seidelin: 1904-1987
Aage Petersen: 1902-1986
Tove Kindt-Larsen: 1906-1994
Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen: 1907-1993
Esben Klint: 1915-1969
Erik Hansen: 1916-1982
Peter Hvidt:1916-1986
Vilhelm Wohlert: 1920-
Andreas Hansen: 1936
Poul Seest Pedersen: 1941
Michael Bang: 1944
Flemming Agger: 1944
Christian Hvidt: 1946
Poul Christiansen: 1947 -
Thomas Krause: 1959-
Philip Bro Ludvigsen: 1962-
Tage Klint: 1884-1953
Tage Klint, the son of P. V. Jensen Klint, was the creative entrepreneur who turned the Klint family’s activities into a business establishing the commercial foundations of the LE Klint company.
Tage Klint, a chartered surveyor came to Odense in 1920 at the request of Thomas B. Thrige to work on the “Triangel” car factory. Settleing in Odense he also founded the firms of Lactosan and Sanovo.
Tage Klint was the designer of the unique collar fitted to the original Klint shades the that uses the elasticity of the material to hold the lamp firmly in place on a stand. A number of lamps designed by Tage Klint are still in the LE KLINT range.
^top
Kaare Klint 1888-1954
Kaare Klint was a pupil of the architect Carl Petersen and his father P.V. Jensen Klint, whom he succeeded as architect of the Grundtvig Church and whose work on LE KLINT’s lamp shades he continued.
Kaare Klint designed the fittings for LE KLINT’s shop on Store Kirkestræde, and he supplied drawings for numerous lamp shades, some of which are still among the most striking designs in LE KLINT’s product range.
He became a university lecturer in 1924 and from that year onwards was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he founded the Department of Furniture Design.
He was the architect of the Bethlehem Church in Copenhagen (1935-37) and responsible for the interior design of the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen (together with Ivar Bentsen bewteen 1921-26).
Kaare Klint’s best-known furniture designs include a chair for Faaborg Museum (1914), a chair in mahogany and leather for the Danish Museum of Decorative Art (1927), the Safari Chair (1933), and the Church Chair for the Bethlehem Church (1936).
^top
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen: 1897-1958
Gunnar Biilmann Petersen is one of the great figures Danish design. He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Decorative Art and subsequently worked as an architect. However. His most important contribution to Danish design history are in the graphic arts.
His work covers everything from posters, bank notes and logos, to Jens Olsen’s World Clock in Copenhagen’s City Hall.
Alongside his design work, Biilmann Petersen concerned himself with education and research. He was the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ first design professor appointed in 1951.
Biilmann Petersen worked on various table-lamp designs for LE KLINT, some of which are still in the product range.
^top
Mogens Koch: 1998-1992
Mogens Koch graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, was appointed an associate professor in 1940 and later worked as a professor of architecture from 1950 to 1968 in cooperation with Kaare Klint from 1925 to 1930.
Mogens Koch was known for his classic designs not only in the field of furniture but also in architecture, textiles, silverware, and typography.
He designed pendant model 105 for LE KLINT.
^top
Edvard Kindt-Larsen:1901-1982
The architect Edvard Kindt-Larsen produced a wide range of work in cooperation with his wife, Tove Kindt-Larsen. Making an ever increasing contribution to design over many years. The couple shared an astute sense of quality and an ability to work in a recognised idiom that precisely coincided with the taste of the day.
As a newly qualified architect, Edvard Kindt-Larsen had caused a stir with his lavishly conceived gold medal project for a large hotel by the lakes in Copenhagen, and continued to attention on a regular basis with his buildings, especially his own house in Klampenborg in 1962.
^top
Henning Seidelin: 1904-1987
Henning Seidelin trained out as a sculptor. His naturalistic groups of figures testify to a marked feeling for mass in space, and some have bold lines that demonstrate his precise instinct for composition.
Later Henning Seidelin became an industrial designer and created classics in cutlery, kitchenware and dinner services, as well as designing furniture, stoves, as well as lamps for LE KLINT.
^top
Aage Petersen: 1902-1986
Aage Petersen trained as a sculptor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked on a wide range of subjects in his naturalistic sculptures. His most outstanding work is the Faxe Monument of 1938.
Aage Petersen was also responsible for wall decorations at Copenhagen Zoological Gardens and lamp designs, including several models for LE KLINT.
^top
Tove Kindt-Larsen: 1906-1994
Tove Kindt-Larsen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and worked on furniture design prior to her marriage with Edvard Kindt-Larsen. Their marriage in 1937 signalled the start of a collaboration that was to put them in the first rank as designers, not just of furniture, but also silver flatware, jewellery, textiles and lamps for LE KLINT.
^top
Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen: 1907-1993
A graduate of the Department of Furniture Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen was founder and co-owner of the Hvidt & Mølgaard firm of architects.
Together with his partner, Peter Hvidt, he worked on furniture, interior design, buildings and consultancy assignments for major bridge projects. Their best-know piece of furniture is the Ax Chair created for Fritz Hansen. Co-operation with LE KLINT resulted in several lamp models.
^top
Esben Klint: 1915-1969
Esben Klint was the son of Kaare Klint. Although receiving a rounded education from several of the leading architects of the day he remained very much his father’s pupil. His fathers influence is particularly evident in his church fittings and the furniture he designed together with Børge Mogensen.
He designed a number of lamp shades for LE KLINT, many of which are still in the product range.
^top
Erik Hansen: 1916-1982
Erik Hansen designed the first “scissor lamp” for LE KLINT. For many people, the classic shade, beautifully combined with natural woods, is synonymous with LE KLINT.
There have been many copies of the “scissor lamp”, but there is only one original.
^top
Peter Hvidt:1916-1986
Peter Hvidt was founder and co-owner of the Hvidt & Mølgaard firm of architects.
Together with his partner, Orla Mølgaard, he did pioneering work in the industrial manufacture of furniture and Danish furniture making in the 1950s. Their architectural idiom is bright, clear and simple.
Their buildings are worked out down to the last detail, setting their stamp on the furnishings and interior design. Their best-known piece of furniture is the Ax Chair created for Fritz Hansen. Cooperation with LE KLINT resulted in several lamp models.
^top
Vilhelm Wohlert: 1920-
Vilhelm Wohlert trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he was a pupil of Kaare Klint. He was appointed Professor of Architecture in 1968 a position he held until 1986. He was made an honorary member by the institution in 2001.
His most important work includes the renovation of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Louisiana, Museum Bochum, Gustav Lübcke Museum and a large number of other architectural commissions and restoration projects.
He has been awarded the Small Gold Medal of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Eckersberg Medal, the Society for Architectural and Scenic Culture Prize and a number of other international honours.
Vilhelm Wohlert designed a lamp for LE KLINT as part of the interior design for Niels Bohr’s honorary residence in Copenhagen.
^top
Andreas Hansen: 1936-
Andreas Hansen trained at Ringe becoming a skilled cabinet maker in 1956. He then attended the Kunsthandvrerkerskolen (The School of Arts and Crafts, Denmark ) Graduating in 1962.
He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark 1962-1963. Undertaking study tours to Florence, Rome and Venice. During this period he worked for the architects Mogens Koch and Vilhelm Wohlert.
In 1968 up to 1988 he returned to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, as a teacher, a role he also undertook between 1970 - 1973 at Denmark's Design School. In 1974 he went on a study tour of Egypt.
He has had his own company since 1963 designing furniture, lighting including several designs for Le Klint.
^top
Poul Seest Pedersen: 1941
Poul Seest Pedersen trained at the School of Arts Crafts and Design. He works with sculpture, experimental and industrial design, packaging, logos, trademarks, pictograms, graphic adaptation, etc.
He established his own design studio and model workshop in 1970, teaching at Denmark's Design School between 1987 to 1992.
Poul Seest Pedersen was awarded the LE KLINT Fund Grant in 1979 and has since developed 14 models for LE KLINT.
^top
Michael Bang: 1944
Michael Bang originally trained as a ceramicist but after a couple of years at Ekenäs Glasbruk he choose glass as his exclusive artistic medium.
In 1968 he became a permanent designer at the Kastrup and Holmegaard glassworks tasked with developing the future production in a more artistic direction.
Michael Bang has also carried out a number of decorative projects, including at the SiD School in Svendborg and De Forenede Eddikebryggerier in Copenhagen.
^top
Flemming Agger: 1944
Flemming Agger has designed a number of metal lamps for LE KLINT. The combination of classic shades and Flemming Agger’s designs were an immediate success. In 1979 model 368 was launched at the Gothenburg fair. A classic was born, and model 368 is still the best-selling floor lamp in the history of LE KLINT.
^top
Christian Hvidt: 1946
Christian Hvidt qualified as an engineer in 1971, having specialised in product development. In 1981 he took over working with LE KLINT from his father, the architect Peter Hvidt, MAA, of Hvidt & Mølgaard A/S. This continuing cooperation has led to a number of new LE KLINT models.
Christian Hvidt has held a number of important honorary posts in the design industry and has his own design studio working as a freelance designer for Danish and foreign firms designing mainly furniture and lighting.
^top
Poul Christiansen: 1947 -
Poul Christiansen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture.
He worked in architecture and design for Ib & Jørgen Rasmussen from 1977 to 1986. He founded “Komplot Design”, together with Boris Berlin in 1987.
Between 1969 and 1987 Poul Christiansen brought innovative and exciting dimensions to LE KLINT’s lamp shades. Prior to his involvement the shades had been folded in pleats and in straight lines across the pleats. Poul Christiansen discovered that folding in mathematical curves gave the lamp shades beautiful and unique sculptural shapes.
His most famous creation is the SinusLine series, which he developed by combining sine curves in such a way that they formed a lamp shade when folded.
Poul Christiansen continues to design new lamps for LE KLINT.
^top
Thomas Krause: 1959-
Thomas Krause trained at the Danish School of Art and Design and has since obtained a Master of Arts Degree in industrial design from the Royal College of Art in London.
His work covers a broad range of industrial design from furniture, packaging, toys and signs to glass and kitchenware for a variety of companies including Lego, Bang & Olufsen, Ikea, Carlsberg and Danske Bank. Thomas Krause has designed a number of models for LE KLINT, including new interpretations of old designs.
^top
Philip Bro Ludvigsen: 1962-
Philip Bro Ludvigsen qualified from the Danish School of Art and Design in 1989 and has taught at Denmark's Design School and the National Institute of Design in India.
Philip Bro Ludvigsen works on a broad spectrum of product design ranging from small gift items, through lighting, to large interior design projects. His clients include Georg Jensen, Unique Interiør, Royal Copenhagen, Ikea and, of course, LE KLINT.
He has his own design studio “philip bro design”.
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