Jacques Adnet Brown Hand-Stitched Leather-Clad Table Lamp

About the Item

Elegant table lamp designed by Jacques Adnet (1901 - 1984). A classical cinnamon brown color lamp features a hand-stitched shade with gilded paper lining, polished brass reeded column stem, and a square base in the same hand-stitched brown leather. It gives a soft and warm light. The on/off switch is located on the electrical cord. This European lamp was rewired to fit US standards (no need for an adapter or plug converter). This lamp uses an E27 bulb of up to 100 watts. The bulb used in the photos will be shipped with the piece free of charge. Good condition, with a minor imperfection to the leather grain on the base, but it does not significantly affect the overall appearance. Check the close-up. Measurements: Overall is 13.75 in diameter (35 cm) x 18.13 in high (46 cm). The base alone is 7.07 in wide (18 cm) x 7.07 in deep (18 cm) x 15.75 in high (40 cm). The shade alone is 13.75 in diameter (35 cm) x 4.75 in high (12 cm).

Creator:
Jacques Adnet (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 18.13 in (46.06 cm)Diameter: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)
Power Source:
Hardwired
Voltage:
110-150v
Lampshade:
Included
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Leather
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1950
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Atlanta, GA
Reference Number:
Seller: V112CDAHBG1stDibs: LU1632229890202

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Jacques Adnet

One of the most elegant and innovative 20th-century French furniture designers, Jacques Adnet created a simple, unadorned signature style that is both trim and vigorous. He began his career in the heyday of the Art Deco era, and in the 1950s, in association with Hermès, created chairs, lamps, desks and other pieces that employed slender metal frames clad in stitched saddle leather. With such furnishings, Adnet brought a fashion sensibility to design and decor that had not been seen since the 1920s prime of the great Paris couturier-decorator Paul Poiret.

Adnet was born in a provincial town in Burgundy, where he studied design before moving, along with his twin brother, Jean, to Paris to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs. After their graduation in the early 1920s, the brothers were hired to work in the decorative-arts atelier of the department store Galeries Lafayette, under the direction of Maurice Dufrêne, an Art Deco master who developed a singularly robust and opulent style. Both Adnets showed their work at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the design fair from which the term Art Deco is derived.

In 1928, Jacques Adnet took charge of the struggling La Compagnie des Arts Français, a decorative-arts firm founded by Louis Süe and André Mare that created modern furnishings that bore traces of 18th-century styling. Adnet immediately took the company in a different direction. He developed a simple lithe and lean look that incorporated industrial materials such as metal and glass, along with exotic woods and finishes such as parchment and sharkskin. Adnet’s furniture begs to be described in terms of personalities: charming faux-bamboo side tables, suave chrome lighting, urbane club chairs. His most noted pieces — sleek metal frames wrapped in Hermès leather — have a character all their own: Smooth, elegant and self-assured, they inhabit a room with the same wit and grace as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve.