Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
The graceful and stylish modern furniture designed by Jean Perzel earned him prestigious clients all over the world, including the Rothschilds and Henry Ford. His sleek Art Deco lighting fixtures are masterpieces of design, and his work has graced the homes of the kings of Morocco and Siam, and the French presidents Charles De Gaulle and Georges Pompidou. Vintage Perzel tables, floor lamps and other furnishings elegantly accentuate and complement — but never overpower — the architecture of their environment.
Perzel was born in Germany. His father and grandfather were glassmakers, and Jean learned to love the craft just as they did. He apprenticed with stained glass artist Franz Xaver Zettler in Munich and left his native country at a young age to travel around Europe. While traveling, he took jobs in various workshops and made his way to Paris around 1910. There he worked for a master glassmaker and was sent to their Algiers factory, where he supervised the production of the company’s more important commissions.
After serving in the Foreign Legion during the first World War, Perzel became a French citizen. He returned to glass painting in 1919 and became a stained glass artist in the workshop of revered Art Nouveau furniture designer Jacques Gruber.
Perzel eventually became fascinated with the burgeoning lighting industry’s then-new technology. He explored how illumination worked in big spaces such as the era’s stately cathedrals and bustling transit hubs and began to concentrate on designing elegant electric fixtures that offered diffused light in a uniform way.
Perzel opened his atelier in Paris in 1923 and produced decorative wall lights and sconces, chandeliers, floor and table lamps, and ceiling lights. He worked with frosted or sandblasted glass and colored enamels to design functional, geometrically rich fixtures that transformed an interior. Perzel’s work was included in the the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts — the exhibition credited with having widely publicized the Art Deco style — and he drew the attention of American industrialist Henry Ford, who commissioned him to design lamps, clocks and other objects that incorporated Ford auto parts. Perzel’s commission would help commemorate the production of 25 million Ford vehicles in Michigan. This cemented Perzel’s reputation as a prestigious lighting designer and manufacturer, and he was tasked with the production of headlights for Ford cars. The Ford-Perzel relationship endured for decades.
Perzel is renowned for designing the lighting for the Luxembourg Cathedral, the League of Nations in Geneva and the Canadian embassy in the Hague. He also collaborated with some of history’s most celebrated architects and designers, including Jules Leleu, Le Corbusier and Michel Roux-Spitz.
On 1stDibs, find vintage Atelier Jean Perzel lighting and other furniture.
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Fine French Art Deco Table Lamp by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a bronze base that supports a white opaline shade.
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Double Arm Bronze Wall Sconces by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Fairfax, VA
Combination of verdi green/black patina with satin finish bronze double arm torchere wall sconces.
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1950s French Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Fine French Art Deco Bronze Hand Cut Glass Sconces by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With frosted and clear hand cut glass underlined with a bronze frame which supports bronze and frosted glass bowls.
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1950s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Fine French Art Deco Glass, Opaline and Bronze Sconces by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With an opaline shade diffuser seating on a bronze frame adorned with some hand-cut clear and frosted lamellae glass.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Two-Tiered Flush Mount by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - fine French Art Deco two-tiered round ceiling fixture with a gilded lacquered bronze frame which supports the bent and flat enameled white glass diffusers.
The flat bo...
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1970s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1970s Brass and Glass "Queen's Necklace" Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French 1970s round "Queens Necklace" flush mount/ceiling light made with rough laid glass slabs set between two brass frames and a white opaline glass diffuser (...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1950s Glass and Brass Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French midcentury ceiling light with a satin brushed circular brass structure that holds a fluted frosted glass bowl diffuser.
Signed.
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1950s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
3 Fine French Hanging Bronze and "Craquelé" Glass Lanterns by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a satin gilded finish bronze frame that hold a crazed glass shade.
Dimensions:
2 same : 32 1/2" (with chain) Diameter: 19 1/4"
1 Smaller and different: H: 28 4/8" (with ch...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
7 Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Enameled Glass Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a brown patina bronze square frame that holds the white enameled optical glass diffusers.
The flat square horizontal diffuser is easily removable in order to change the b...
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1970s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Glass and Bronze Square Flush Mount by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a bronze square frame that holds the enameled glass diffusers. The square bottom glass diffuser is removable for bulb replacement.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1970s Brass and Glass "Queen's Necklace" Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French 1970's round "Queens Necklace" flush mount/ceiling light made with rough laid glass slabs set between two brass frames and a white opaline glass diffuser ...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1970s Brass and Glass "Queen's Necklace" Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French 1970's round "Queens Necklace" flush mount/ceiling light made with rough laid glass slabs set between two brass frames and a white opaline glass diffuser ...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Glass Wall Light by Perzel, '2 Available'
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French Art Deco sconce made with vertical diamond cut-glass slabs outlined by a bronze mount and a bronze bowl that supports a white frosted glass diffuser.
Thi...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Glass Wall Light by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French Art Deco sconce made with vertical diamond cut-glass slabs outlined by a bronze mount and a bronze bowl that supports a white frosted glass diffuser.
This...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Square Glass and Bronze Flush Mount by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a bronze square frame that holds the frosted glass diffusers. The square bottom glass diffuser is removable in order to change the bulbs.
Signed.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
3 Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Crystal Clear Glass Sconces by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - Three fine French Art Deco wall lights made with a semi-oval bronze bowl adorned with crystal clear glass slabs.
Signed.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Crystal, Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Glass and Bronze Ceiling Light by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a bronze crown-shaped frame that holds the frosted glass diffusers. The horizontal round enameled white glass diffuser is removable in order to change the bulbs.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Set of Three Rectangular Glass and Bronze Ceiling Lights by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a gold lacquered bronze frame that holds the white laminated glass diffusers. The flat square horizontal diffuser is easily removable in order to change the bulbs.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of French Art Deco Bronze and White Glass Sconces by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Atelier Perzel – A pair of fine French Art Deco wall lights with a enameled white glass bowl shade sitting on a bronze frame.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Glass Flush Mount by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel: A fine French Art Deco flush mount with a bronze and lacquered frame, sand blasted glass diffusers and "crystal" cut glasses set in bronze blades on corners. The flat wh...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze, Metal
Fine French Art Deco Vertical Wall Light in Bronze and Glass by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With clear and sandblasted cut glass diffusers inserted in a gilded patina bronze frame.
Lighted with a tube (which now can be dimmable) and easy to change.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Cut Glass Sconces by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Atelier Jean Perzel - Pair of fine French Art Deco wall lights with some frosted and clear hand-cut crystal glass underlined with a bronze frame which supports a bronze and a frosted glass bowls...
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1850s French Art Deco Antique Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
3 Fine French Art Deco Fluted Glass and Bronze Wall Lights by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a sandblasted and fluted bowl diffuser supported by two bronze clasps.
Price is per sconce.
Signed.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Hanging Bronze and "craquelé" Glass Lanterns by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a gilded bronze chain and frame that hold a crazed glass shade and an inside frosted glass diffuser.
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1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Enameled Glass Flush Mount by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a gold lacquered bronze crown-shaped frame that holds the white enameled glass diffusers.
The flat round horizontal diffuser is easily removable in order to change the bu...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Glass and Bronze Ceiling Light by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted on a bronze crown-shaped frame that holds the frosted glass diffusers. The round white horizontal laminated white glass diffusers is easily removable in order to change the b...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine Round Nickeled and Glass “Queen’s Necklace” Ceiling Light by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Atelier Jean Perzel - Fine French mid century round “Queens Necklace” flush mount / ceiling light made with rough laid glass slabs set between two brushed nickel mount rings and a wh...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
2 Fine French Mid-Century Bronze and Glass Floor Lamps by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - Two fine French 1950s bronze base floor lamps with 3 stems that support a bronze bowl and an optical glass diffuser.
Price is per lamp.
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Large Fine French Art Deco Bronze Sconce with Cascading Glass Slabs by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a large bronze bowl that supports a shimmering cascade of ground frosted crystal clear glass slabs.
Model created by Jean Perzel in the 30s.
S...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Rare and Large Art Deco Wall Sconces by Jean Perzel, Paris, circa 1930s
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Wiesbaden, Hessen
Wonderful pair of French wall sconces by Jean Perzel, Paris, circa 1930s.
They are made of nickeled bronze and heavy ground glass slabs.
Lamp socket: each one x e 27 (for standard ...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze, Nickel
2 Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Glass Slabs Sconces by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - Two fine French Art Deco sconces made with glass slabs mounted on a plated bronze frame.
Signed
Price is per sconce.
2 additional sconces are available with a different...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
9 Large Fine French 1970's Bronze Wall Lights by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel (1892-1986): Nine rare French 1970s polished bronze sconces.
This model was especially created for "la Banque de France" and installed at the headquarter of the Bank of F...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1950s Pivoting Sconce by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rare and elegant French mid-century wall light by Jean Perzel, made with a pivoting bronze arm that supports a lacquered metal and enameled glass shade.
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Metal, Bronze
Pair of Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Cut Glass Sconces by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With some frosted and clear handcut crystal glass underlined with a bronze frame which supports a bronze and a frosted glass bowls.
Signed.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Table Lamp by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With the original "médaille patinated" round base and tapered stem that hold a white lacquered and frosted glass shade.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze, Metal
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Glass Floor Lamp by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a 2-tier round base, a conical stem that holds a stack of clear and amber cut glass slabs and a bronze bowl on which rests an optical glass bowl.
Model created in 1938
US re-w...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1950s Glass and Bronze Pendant by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a bronze cylindrical rod and canopy, a bubbly white glass bowl mounted on a bronze frame that holds a white opaline glass diffuser (which is easy to remove in order to replace t...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French Art Deco Bronze and Slabs Glass Sconce by Jean Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine French Art Deco slabs glass wall light mounted in a bronze frames sconces by Jean Perzel.
Signed.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1950s Glass and Bronze Pendant by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a bronze cylindrical rod and canopy, a bubbly white glass bowl mounted on a bronze frame that holds a prismatic glass lens.
Signed.
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine 1950s Brass and Glass Square "Queen's Necklace" Ceiling Light by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine French midcentury square "collier de la reine" flush mount / ceiling light by Jean Perzel made with rough laid glass slabs set between two re-polished brass frames and a white...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Large Fine French 1950s Bronze and Glass Torchere Wall light by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - Unusually large fine French Mid-Century bronze torchere sconce with a frosted glass shade
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Pair of Signed Perzel Sconces
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of signed Perzel sconces. Model 1063 from the Jean Perzel Catalog
Brass and steel.
US rewired and in working condition
75 watts max bulb
Backplate: 5" W x 11" H.
Have a look o...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Steel, Bronze, Brass
A French 1970s Bronze and Glass Slab Sconce by Perzel.
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A French 1970s bronze and glass slab sconce by Perzel.
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Jean Perzel French Art Deco Very Rare Floor Lamp, circa 1932
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jean Perzel, rare floor lamp, model 32, in nickel-plated bronze and salmon-pink crystal. Very rare, only a few collectors and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris own this mo...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Crystal, Bronze
Perzel Table Lamp
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Nickel-plated brass and frosted glass table lamp.
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine French 1970s Brass and Glass "Queen's Necklace" Flush Mount by Perzel
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Perzel - A fine French 1970's round "Queens Necklace" flush mount/ceiling light made with rough laid glass slabs set between two brass frames and a white opaline glass diffuser ...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Fine Glass and Bronze Cylindrical Sconces by Jean Perzel (only one fixture left)
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Atelier Perzel - Fine French Art Deco wall light with an enameled glass cylinder shade mounted on a bronze base.
Only one light remains for...
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1950s French Art Deco Vintage Atelier Jean Perzel Furniture
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Bronze
Atelier Jean Perzel furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Atelier Jean Perzel furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Atelier Jean Perzel furniture, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Atelier Jean Perzel were created in the Art Deco style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Arlus, David Gueron Degue, and Pierre Guariche. Prices for Atelier Jean Perzel furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $374 and can go as high as $61,056, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $6,424.