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This 1st edition has a closed top
The 2nd edition has a top with air holes
Andreas Hansen Mandalay Pendant Lamp
Materials: White painted aluminium UFO style lampshade. Chromed metal curved ring or cap on top. White painted aluminium canopy. Metal parts and screws (iron). Bakelite E27 socket.
Cord Length: 60 cm / 23.62’’
Height: 25 cm / 9.84”
Width: ∅ 44,6 cm / 17.55”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
No specific type of light bulb is required; different types can be used.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: Andreas Hansen in 1973.
Manufacturer: Louis Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Other versions: The Andreas Hansen Mandalay pendant lamp, with its bell-shaped shade, was also produced in versions with a brass top cap instead of a chrome one. It was available in several colours and remained in production for about ten years.
Andreas Hansen
Andreas Hansen (born 1936) is a Danish designer who trained as a cabinetmaker before graduating from the Kunsthåndværkerskolen in 1962. He later continued his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Furniture Design through 1963. During this period, he also worked for the architects Mogens Koch and Vilhelm Wohlert and travelled in Italy on study trips.
Since 1963, Hansen has run his own design studio, focusing on furniture, lighting and industrial design. His work was mainly produced for Danish manufacturers, including Le Klint, Fog & Mørup and Louis Poulsen. He is particularly well known for the inventive lampshades he designed for Le Klint in the early 1960s. He also taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the School of Applied Arts and Crafts from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s.
Mandalay
The name Mandalay refers to the former royal capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is also well known from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Mandalay”, first published in 1890 and later included in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892.
Louis Poulsen
Louis Poulsen is a Danish lighting manufacturer with roots going back to 1874, when Ludvig R. Poulsen founded a business in Copenhagen. Originally a trading company, the firm gradually shifted towards electrical supplies and lighting as electricity became more widely used. In 1896 Ludvig’s nephew Louis Poulsen joined the company, and after Ludvig’s death in 1906 Louis continued the business. In 1914Sophus Kaastrup-Olsen became a partner, and the company name changed to Louis Poulsen & Co.
A decisive turning point came in 1924, when Poul Henningsen began his long collaboration with the company. His scientific approach to glare-free lighting and reflective multi-shade systems became central to the identity of Louis Poulsen and strongly influenced modern lighting design. Since then, the company has continued to combine functional light, architectural clarity and carefully considered form, following the idea that a lamp should not merely be an object, but a tool to shape light.
Over the decades, Louis Poulsen has produced both iconic domestic lighting and large-scale architectural lighting for public and professional spaces. The company remains one of the best-known names in Danish lighting design, with a strong emphasis on the quality, direction and atmosphere of light.
Designers
The designer most closely associated with Louis Poulsen is Poul Henningsen (PH). Other major names linked to the company include Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Vilhelm Lauritzen and Vilhelm Wohlert.
Over time, Louis Poulsen also collaborated with a wide range of designers, architects and studios, including Alfred Homann, Andreas Hansen, Eila & John Meiling, Henning Klok, Axel Wedel Madsen, Jørgen Bo, Ole Valdemar Kjær, Jens Møller-Jensen and Bent Gantzel-Boysen.
Among later and more recent collaborations are Louise Campbell, Øivind Slaatto, Christian Flindt, Clara von Zweigbergk, nendo (Oki Sato), Olafur Eliasson, GamFratesi, Anne Boysen, Peter Bysted, Anu Moser, Shoichi Uchiyama, Gabriel Tan and Finn Juhl.
Links (external links open in a new window)
Complete history of Louis Poulsen on the Louis Poulsen website
Awards and prizes for Louis Poulsen over the years
Andreas Hansen Mandalay Pendant Lamp – Company Labels
