Poul Henningsen (Sept. 9, 1894 - 1967), affectionately known as PH, was an outstanding Danish designer, architect, song-writer and cultural critic. He was a true multi-talent, and much of what he created remains iconic and in production today.
Here we have him with his wife in a summer house he designed for the Swedish company Myresjöhus who wanted to create a cheap, functionalist holiday home of no more than 50m2. PH designed it and within 24 days from the finished sketches the house was built in Skagen.
We see several of PH’s iconic lamps in the living room, and some excellent furniture as well.
In addition, PH wrote the lyrics to some of the best-loved cabaret songs in the Danish revue canon, including the tragi-comic “Ølhunden” (”The Beer Hound”) from 1929, and the 1940 anti-censorship, anti-Nazist anthem “Man binder os paa Mund og Haand (men man kan ikke binde Aand)”...
