Le Klint

Le Klint is a Danish light furniture company known for its lamp shades made out of pleated and folded paper.

The design was originally created by the architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint in about 1900 for his own use.

Unlike previous models of pleated lampshades it had a collar which kept it in place without the use of string.

Jensen-Klint's son Tage Klint patented the invention in 1938 but it took another five years before the company was founded and a production began.

Poul Christiansen made new designs for Le Klint from 1967 to 1978, including the successful Sinus line created by combining sine waves which, when folded, form spherical lampshades.