Serge Mouille 'Grand Totem' standard lamp circa 1962 Painted aluminium, painted metal, stained walnut. 170.5 cm (67 1/8 in.) high Manufactured by S.C.M. (Société de Création de Modèles), Paris.
Provenance Private collection, Paris Pierre Bergé & Associés, Brussels, 'Design', 9 June, 2010, lot 269 Literature Two Master Metalworkers: Jean Prouvé Serge Mouille exh. cat., Anthony DeLorenzo, New York, Alan and Christine Counord, Paris, 1985, pp. 150, 163, 166, 169 Patrick Favardin, Le Style 50, un moment del’art français, Paris, 1987, p. 61 Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille A French classic, un classique français, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, pp. 100, 104, 106-107, 127, 132, 222-25 for images and a drawing Catalogue Essay The 'Totem' standard lamp belongs to the ‘Colonnes’ (Columns) collection launched in 1961 by the recently founded S.C.M. (Société de Création de Modèles) and presented in 1962 at the Salon des Arts Ménagers. With this series Mouille aimed to accomplish a radical stylistic break with his previous career, dominated by the well-known ‘Black Forms’. Contrarily to his former creations, ‘Colonnes’ displays the rigid geometry of the urban and architectonic aesthetics of the 1960s and includes new industrial materials such as the fluorescent tube. Read More
Serge Mouille 'Grand Totem' standard lamp circa 1962 Painted aluminium, painted metal, stained walnut. 170.5 cm (67 1/8 in.) high Manufactured by S.C.M. (Société de Création de Modèles), Paris.
Provenance Private collection, Paris Pierre Bergé & Associés, Brussels, 'Design', 9 June, 2010, lot 269 Literature Two Master Metalworkers: Jean Prouvé Serge Mouille exh. cat., Anthony DeLorenzo, New York, Alan and Christine Counord, Paris, 1985, pp. 150, 163, 166, 169 Patrick Favardin, Le Style 50, un moment del’art français, Paris, 1987, p. 61 Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille A French classic, un classique français, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, pp. 100, 104, 106-107, 127, 132, 222-25 for images and a drawing Catalogue Essay The 'Totem' standard lamp belongs to the ‘Colonnes’ (Columns) collection launched in 1961 by the recently founded S.C.M. (Société de Création de Modèles) and presented in 1962 at the Salon des Arts Ménagers. With this series Mouille aimed to accomplish a radical stylistic break with his previous career, dominated by the well-known ‘Black Forms’. Contrarily to his former creations, ‘Colonnes’ displays the rigid geometry of the urban and architectonic aesthetics of the 1960s and includes new industrial materials such as the fluorescent tube. Read More
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