Aage Petersen

Danish architect and industrial designer Aage Petersen (1902–1986) was an essential mid-century master whose functionalist luminaires helped define Denmark's golden age of domestic lighting. Trained in architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kaare Klint, Petersen applied mathematical rigor and geometric clarity to interior illumination. Petersen is revered for his long-standing, prolific collaboration with lighting pioneer Le Klint, serving as the company’s managing director from 1954 to 1970. His crowning design triumph is the iconic Model 306 table and wall lamp (1945), reissued today by Le Klint. Engineered with a clever pivoting brass arm, the lamp converts seamlessly from a table light into a wall-mounted sconce, crowned by a hand-pleated paper shade.