VL Studio Table/Floor Lamp

This VL Studio family derives from a lamp designed by architect Vilhelm Lauritzen for Radiohuset (The Radio House headquarters of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation) in Copenhagen in the 1940s. The name Studio was chosen because some of the lamps were used outside the studio to indicate¡ªwith either a red or green light¡ªwhether the recording was taking place. Lauritzen was the architect behind Radiohuset a functionalist design which was inaugurated in 1945. Radiohuset is a gesamtkunstwerk¡ªlike most of Lauritzen's buildings¡ªmeaning that he designed all of the interiors and every detail of the building. When developing Radiohuset Lauritzen designed a broad collection of lamps in close collaboration with Louis Poulsen. For this project Lauritzen created the Studio lamp the VL 38 Table lamp (VL38) the Radiohus Pendant (VL45) and the VL Ring Crown lamps. After the creation of the lamps in the 1940s they were produced by Louis Poulsen. However over the years they were all taken out of pr