Fripon was founded in 2025 to bring light back to the iconic Filosof lamp, created by architect Lars-Erik Ejlers (1948–2024).
About Lars-Erik Ejlers
Lars-Erik Ejlers was not like most architects. He constantly threw himself into new projects across a wide range of fields. Among other things, he reopened Restaurant Lumskebugten after a period of decline, founded the booking agency “GOOD MUSIC”, and created countless graphic posters and works of art. This restlessness meant that the Filosof lamp became the only design object he ever fully realised.
A Copenhagen design classic
Lars-Erik Ejlers originally created the Filosof lamp in 1990 for Restaurant Cap Horn in Nyhavn. The lamp was launched with the confident slogan “A new classic sees the light of day” and has since become an almost mythical classic due to its long history of rare and highly personal distribution. Lars-Erik Ejlers took the lamp with him wherever he went, turning Copenhagen’s nightlife into his personal showroom. To own a Filosof lamp was to own a piece of a story. It was often purchased directly from him during a late-night visit to one of the city’s bars, making the lamp both rare and iconic.
Read more about the story behind the Filosof lamp here.