Louis Poulsen AJ Oxford Table Lamp

AJ Oxford Table lamp by Arne Jacobsen for Louis Poulsen.

The AJ Oxford was inaugurated in 1963 by the renowned Danish architect Arne Jacobsen for St Catherine’s College in Oxford, a building Jacobsen designed himself in a modernist architectural style.

Initially designed as a table pin lamp for the institute’s dining hall, which seated 350 people on long rows of oak tables, the light can still be found at St Catherine’s College today.

The silhouette of the sleek, graphic light reflects the college’s architecture. It is available in two shades; metal black/opal glass or opal glass, two heights, and a pin base for the tall version.

The metal black/opal glass emits a pleasant downward-directed light, softly illuminating the surface below through the three-layered mouth-blown opal glass, whilst the opal glass shade delivers an additional glow that creates a halo around the fixture.