Established in 1874, the original house of light Louis Poulsen creates iconic products that provide exceptional light. Honouring the Danish design tradition, Louis Poulsen designs are based on the principle that form follows function. With a culture of close collaboration, for example with prominent designers like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Vilhelm Lauritzen, Øivind Slaatto, Olafur Eliasson, Oki Sato and Anne Boysen, Louis Poulsen continues to build on their legacy of creating luxury lighting, with the help of passionate craftmanship, quality materials and innovative designs. Louis Poulsen has established itself as a leading global architectural and decorative lighting brand.
Arclinea, also known as Arclinea Arredamenti Spa, is an Italian kitchen design company: its mission is to harmonize creativity and technology, conviviality and functionality, through innovative solutions for spaces that improve our quality of life.
Arclinea is a prestigious and internationally famous brand with selected specialist sales points worldwide.
We dream of a world with fewer but better products, favouring staying power over fading trends. Whether it is developing a bin, rethinking the modular kitchen, creating a furniture line or hosting the Vipp Hotel, we measure the quality of products and concepts on their long-term ability to provide an experience out of the ordinary.
It began as a love story.
Sometimes winning the lottery leads to more than just temporary excitement. When Vipp founder Holger Nielsen won a car on his ticket to the local soccer stadium in 1932 it was the beginning of Vipp. He just did not know it. He sold the car, bought a metal press and few years later, when his wife Marie needed a bin for her hairdressing salon, he went to his one-man workshop and crafted what today is known as the Vipp pedal bin.
Holger could not have imagined that the pedal-controlled bin he designed in 1939 would eventually sow the seed for a full-blown design universe of accessories, furniture and kitchens. Nor that his bin would be a catalyst for a design hotel concept.
Vipp is still a family-owned, independent, Danish design company run by Holger’s daughter, Jette Egelund, her two children Kasper and Sofie together with 45 employees in Copenhagen, Denmark.