Softly Pleated design by Philip Bro for Le Klint
A new series of hand-folded felt lamps designed by Philip Bro The lamps combine soft, varm …
The design brand Le Klint presents Celine, a pendant designed by OEO Studio
The design brand Le Klint presents Celine, a pendant designed by OEO Studio and produced …
SPOT lamp by Pascal Hien – Le Klint
The Danish design brand Le Klint welcomes the German designer Pascal Hien into the Le …
Iconic Lampshades in New Paper Colors Buttermilk and Moss Green – Le Klint
Nearly 125 years ago, architect P.V. Jensen-Klint created the first pleated lampshade in brown cartridge …
Plivello Pendant by Christian Troels – Le Klint
It is with great pleasure that we can present our newest lamp PLIVELLO. Created by …
Bee Hive Lamp Traditional Japanese Design Le Klint
BEE HIVE Design: The Harrit-Sørensen + Samson design team. Inspired by the traditional Japanese lamps, BEE …
Galaxy by Poul Christiansen for Le Klint
GALAXY – the possibilities of folding Poul Christiansen’s lamps are more current than ever, and …
SHIBUI was based on our DNA designed by Søren Refsgaard – Le Klint
SHIBUI – A New Design A new series consisting of both a wall and floor lamp plus …
Exhibition: Folded Objects by Poul Christiansen @ A. Petersen
FOLDED OBJECTS is an exhibition that consists of unique architectural mini-works – hand-folded by Poul Christiansen, as part …
Candlelight portable lanterns from Le Klint
CANDLELIGHT are portable lanterns that allows you to have ambient lighting, wherever you like, all …
Soleil by Philip Bro Ludvigsen – Le Klint
SOLEIL Thunder Sky & Silver Cloud SOLEIL is French for sun and this latest design, …
Pliverre Series by Christian Troels – Le Klint
PLIVERRE NEW Editions for 2020 Designer Christian Troels, has extended the Pliverre Series with an …
Cylinder collection by LE KLINT’s own design team
Characteristic cross-pleating LE KLINT lamps, famous for their iconic design and handicraft tradition, now have …
Swirl design by Øivind Slaatto for Le Klint
Swirl – so here it is … Despite a clear reference to the classic design …
ELYSION sculptures by Poul Christiansen for Le Klint
ELYSION is renowned as the Greek equivalent for paradise, a place where chosen individuals deserving …
Based on the need for better lighting in Danish homes, which were mostly limited to oil lamps, the architect and engineer Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint folded a lampshade for a stoneware petroleum lamp around the year 1900. He needed a shade to diffuse the sharp light of the flame and at the same time direct the light while still keeping the paper away from the hot glass of the lamp, and so P.V. Jensen-Klint – inspired by Japanese origami – developed the cross-pleating technique, allowing the shade to have a collar/top at an angle of 90° to the straight pleats.