Louis Poulsen Keglen Wall Light
KEGLEN WALL LIGHT
KEGLEN WALL LIGHT
Designed by Jakob Lange
The wall lamp’s distinctive conical shade has a built-in curved diffuser. This ensures an attractive and glare-free light.
A gentle light is also emitted upward through a discreet uniform opening in the top of the shade to create a perfect ambiance. The fixture can be mounted facing downward to direct the light to a specific spot, or upward for indirect light.
Keglen Wall builds on the family relationship with the Keglen Ø400 pendant. Using the same shade size, the stem morphs into the bottom diffuser, folding it inwards as with the table lamp. The stem and base are designed to be as graphic and simple as the conical shade.
The shade and its curved diffuser ensure a pleasant, glare-free, downward directed light. In addition to the ambience created by the illumination of each fixture, a discreet uniform opening in the top of the shades emits a gentle light. Keglen Wall comes with energy-saving LED lights and is available in matt black and matt white.
DESIGNER
JAKOB LANGE
BIG Ideas, BIG’s technology-driven specialist product division, is managed by architect Jakob Lange and produces the practice’s lamps and other types of digital projects that underpin BIG’s designs, buildings and ideas. BIG Ideas was set up to gain increased influence on the built environment.
BIG is a globally renowned architectural practice that has designed and completed award-winning buildings all over the world.
Bjarke Ingels Group was founded in 2005 by architect Bjarke Ingels who continues to define architecture as the art and science of ensuring that our cities and built environments suit the way in which we want to live our lives.
INFORMATION
MATERIALS
- Shade: Spun aluminum.
- Diffuser: Injection-molded PC.
- Wall box: Die cast aluminum.
FINISH
- Black or white
- Matt
- Wet-painted.
BRAND
Louis
USE
Artificial lighting
DESIGNER
Jakob Lange
PRODUCTION
Made in Denmark
WEIGHT
Max 0.8 kg
CLASS
Ingress protection IP20. Class II.
COLLECTION
Poulsen
DESIGNER
Jakob Lange
LIGHT SOURCE
- Light source LED 2700-2000K D2W 8.5W
- Lumen: 338
APPLICATIONS
-Public -Residential -Hotel -Cultural -Educational -Retail
COLORS
-Black -White
DETAILS
Mounting with cord and plug or for hardwiring. With programming by the customer, there is a possibility to disable the switch. An integrated memory function ensures that the lamp wil return to its latest adjusted lumen output when power has been removed and restored. Head can rotate +/- 45° sideways.
MOUNTING
Cord type: Plastic. Cord length: 2.4 m. Switch: On the wall box. Stepless dimming. Adapter: Integrated into the wall box. Mounting with cord and plug or for hardwiring. Possibility to disable the on/off switch. Head can rotate +/- 45° sideways.
DIMENSIONS
- Width : 176 mm
- Height : 142 mm
- Length : 188 mm
HISTORY
THE STORY BEHIND THE PRODUCT
Keglen was created by BIG Ideas in collaboration with Louis Poulsen in 2017. The aim was to create a simple but unique lamp focusing on the geometry and essence of the light. The collaboration between Louis Poulsen and BIG Ideas started with the development of a pendant for the Tirpitz Museum in Blåvand, Denmark.
BIG had designed the building, and the pendant's edgy, galvanized finish encapsulates the museum's fine yet robust architecture, which melts into the dune landscape of West Jutland.
This artistic and technical lighting collaboration between Louis Poulsen and BIG Ideas continued, and it has now resulted in the further development of the Keglen family, whose simple geometry works beautifully in any kind of interior.
The design of Keglen aimed to create a systematic design language that would provide the opportunity for a wide range of lighting typologies. In other words, Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange, and the design team from BIG Ideas wanted to create a family of lamps with the same qualities and design details in various sizes, but each with a unique personality.
Jakob Lange and Bjarke Ingels explain that the geometric and metallic shades have a soft, organic glass insert that resembles a drop of water. In the table and floor versions, the glass insert meets the lamp stem and flows organically around it like liquid exhibiting surface tension. Keglen Wall builds on the same family as the Ø175 Keglen Pendant.
The design is based on the same shade, which is angled in position, where it has a parallel line between the side of the cone and the wall. The angle not only has a very simplistic architectural feel to it but it also allows the light to be pushed further out from the wall.
The curved diffuser permits a glimpse of the inside of the shade while reducing any potential glare. Keglen Wall can be mounted to direct the light downward or upward.
The lampshade is adjustable and can rotate 45 degrees to either side to direct the light where it is most needed. The switch and dimmer are positioned on the base. The cord comes out of the side of the base. Alternatively, the fixture can be mounted directly on an outlet.