Property from the Collection of Susie Tompkins Buell Serge Mouille Three-armed floor lamp, for the Compagnie Des Arts Français 1952-1962 Painted steel, painted metal, brass. 79 in. (200.7 cm) high Manufactured by Atelier Serge Mouille Paris, France. From the production of approximately 30 examples.
Provenance DeLorenzo 1950, New York, circa 1985 Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1989 Literature Alan and Christine Counord and Anthony DeLorenzo, Two Master Metalworkers/Deux Maîtres du Métal: Jean Prouvé Serge Mouille New York, 1985, pp. 119, 136-37 Alan and Christine Counord, Serge Mouille Luminaires, Bordeaux, 1993, n.p. Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille A French classic, un classique français, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, front cover and pp. 46, 71, 121, 124-25, 152, 154 Catalogue Essay Serge Mouille designed the present model three-armed floor lamp, his first, in 1952 in response to a directive from fellow-designer Jacques Adnet “I want a big light because I have clients in South America who have huge rooms.” His first design established all the features that would be employed in his subsequent “Black Form” designs of the 1950s, until he subverted them with his radically stern series of lighting columns. The present example was purchased from DeLorenzo gallery in 1989, following their successful reintroduction of Mouille’s œuvre in their seminal 1985 exhibition of his work. Read More
Property from the Collection of Susie Tompkins Buell Serge Mouille Three-armed floor lamp, for the Compagnie Des Arts Français 1952-1962 Painted steel, painted metal, brass. 79 in. (200.7 cm) high Manufactured by Atelier Serge Mouille Paris, France. From the production of approximately 30 examples.
Provenance DeLorenzo 1950, New York, circa 1985 Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1989 Literature Alan and Christine Counord and Anthony DeLorenzo, Two Master Metalworkers/Deux Maîtres du Métal: Jean Prouvé Serge Mouille New York, 1985, pp. 119, 136-37 Alan and Christine Counord, Serge Mouille Luminaires, Bordeaux, 1993, n.p. Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille A French classic, un classique français, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, front cover and pp. 46, 71, 121, 124-25, 152, 154 Catalogue Essay Serge Mouille designed the present model three-armed floor lamp, his first, in 1952 in response to a directive from fellow-designer Jacques Adnet “I want a big light because I have clients in South America who have huge rooms.” His first design established all the features that would be employed in his subsequent “Black Form” designs of the 1950s, until he subverted them with his radically stern series of lighting columns. The present example was purchased from DeLorenzo gallery in 1989, following their successful reintroduction of Mouille’s œuvre in their seminal 1985 exhibition of his work. Read More
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