Degué Table Lamps

Pair of Art Deco Degué & ROBJ tulip shaped table lamps. Orange pâte de verre glass, on a wrought iron base. France circa 1925-1930. Literatur...

French Art Deco floor-table lamp by Edouard Cazaux at Degue's, France, 1928-1930. Very thick molded glass shade. Superb silver plated solid bronze base. The best by Degué! Measures: ...

Any fair offer will be examined with the utmost attention, please send a message. French Art Deco floor-table lamp by Edouard Cazaux at Degue's, France, 1928-1930. Very thick molded ...

French Art Deco table or desk lamp by Degue(Compiègne) and Charles Ranc (Paris), France, ca.1925. Blown double glass shade by Degue hung at its bronze swa...

Pair of French Art Deco table lamps signed by Degue. Having frosted geometric and floral glass shades. Resting on matching floral bronze bases. Has been rewired for American use. Hav...

French Art Deco table lamp by Edouard Cazaux at Degue's, France, 1928-1930. Very thick molded glass shade. Superb wrought iron base. The best by Degue! The Degue of the Normandy liner. Delivered wired for your country. About Edouard Cazaux : The Cazaux's. The Cazaux story begins in the 19th century when a group of modest potters, from Cagnotte in the Landes region of South-west France, evolves a cottage industry, producing earthenware jugs and plates for their wives to sell in local village markets. Amongst their number are Jean-Baptiste and Marie Cazaux, whose son Alcide, born in 1857, becomes well-known in the region for his ‘Pegas’ or large water jugs their extreme delicacy of design and lightness. Alcide marries Valerie who gives birth to a son, Edouard. The family moves across the Adour river to Bayonne, where a second son Vincent is born and in 1893 the young family moves to the Negresse quarter of nearby Biarritz, where a third son Armand is born in 1895. Alcide continues to create his famous ‘Pegas’ made with local earth from the villages of Arcangue and Espelette. Working a great deal with local house builders the couple dream of building a homeand workshop of their own. In 1908 Alcide and Valerie’s dream comes true; having acquired a piece of land at Chemin de Larreguy, they build their own house and workshop. It is here their three sons Edouard, Vincent and Armand grow up. The pottery becomes more elaborate and sophisticated after young Edouard serves an apprenticeship in Oustau, from where he returns with a few potter’s ‘secrets’, before departing for Paris at the age of 18. The 1914-1918 war is a difficult period for the aging Alcide and Valerie, all three of their sons serve in the army and when Armand returns from serving his country, their faltering business is saved by a large order of resin pots. In 1920 Edouard returns to Paris for good, settling in La Varenne St Hilaire. Armand arrives to help his brother establish production of artistic ceramics. Having accumulated great experience, Armand returns to the Negresse workshop in 1922 and resumes working with his father and older brother Vincent. The three Cazaux brothers maintain contact through weekly correspondence, exchanging drawings, techniques, recipes and discoveries. Production is gradually changing with more emphasis on decorative pieces, both indoor and outdoor. In 1921 the first order is placed for interior decoration, this is the beginning of Cazaux tilework. In 1928, as demand for Cazaux ceramics increases, an enlarged workshop is built. From this year Edouard starts his collaboration with Degue glassworks. Moving into the 1930s, with the construction of many beautiful villas and houses on the Basque coastline, Cazaux's expand their repertoire and evolve a totally original style. Armand and Vincent still receive Parisian contributions from Edouard and their ceramics range expands to encompass furniture. Together, Edouard, Vincent and Armand create the ‘3 B’ fountain, for the Basque pavillion within the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. In addition, they design a great ceramic murale, the mould for which remains in the Chemin de Larreguy workshops to this day. As a result of this combined effort, the brothers receive the exhibition’s prestigious Gold Medal and Edouard begins building a successful reputation in Paris. While meeting many other artists, Edouard remains in touch with his Basque based brothers, Vincent and Armand. He regularly sends letters detailing ideas and sharing information gleaned from his own artisanal circle. Soon Vincent is named ‘Best French Craftsman’ while Armand continues with his interior decoration at Chateau de Brindos in Biarritz. In 1942, a son Jean-Marie is born. In the 1950s Armand adopts a new series of motifs for his work; incorporating deer and women as the principal themes, these designs echo Primitive cave paintings. This stunning work is enhanced by the flames and smoke within the Cazaux wood fired kiln, and during this same period Armand fires large reddish-brown plates, pieces which eloquently symbolize a bold era of Cazaux creativity. In 1952, Edouard writes to his brother Armand: “be quite sure to watch Jean-Marie grow, he will be better than us. In times to come, when people speak about Cazaux, they will say only that we were three!” Edouard Cazaux. Born in Cauneille (Landes), Édouard Cazaux comes from a family of potters. In contact with his family, he learns the actions that will awaken his vocation and shape its future. It starts as a ceramist in Tarbes as a worker in a factory specialized in the utility, then go to Paris. Edouard Cazaux quickly finds a job as a turner at Riviere's, rue de la Roquette. Back in Mont-de-Marsan for his military service, he attends night school drawing courses and meet the sculptor Charles Despiau (1874-1946). In 1912, he wins a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Sèvres school; in the same time, he perfects his training by working in various workshops, especially at Edmond Lachenal's, known for its gilding earthenware. Under the influence of his friend Despiau, Cazaux participates in 1921, as a sculptor and ceramist, to several Salons (Salon des Tuileries, Salon des Artistes décorateurs and Salon d'Automne. He regularly exhibits the results of his research at the Rouard Gallery and Le Grand Depot. From 1918, Edouard Cazaux moves with his wife, old student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and valuable collaborator, to La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, near Paris. He sets up a workshop in which he builts two circular kilns, like those of Sèvres for its stoneware and earthenware. He continues his sculptural work with the edification of monuments (Biarritz memorial in 1921). From 1928, he starts his collaboration with Degue glassworks. For them, he designs art glass pieces and lighting, the whole in a very thick glass with geometric, diamond and spiral patterns. Now, we know that the very best production by Degue was designed by Edouard Cazaux. During these fertile years, alongside his contemporaries Decoeur, Lenoble, Buthaud and Mayodon, Cazaux develops a ceramic that combines religious, antique and animal themes, painted, carved or modeled in relief. Bodies with stylized contours or geometric patterns (spirals, diamonds) are adorned with refined tones and gold highlights. Édouard Cazaux approaches the ceramic as a technician. He experiments the famous brass red, so difficult to obtain, that he fixes in the patterns, but he remains especially known for the use of the Norton stoneware...

French Art Deco nickel-plated table lamp with geometric star and floral design on base and frosted glass shade (signed: DEGUE).  

This rare and iconic Art Deco table lamp was realized by the fabled glass studio, Degue in France, circa 1930. It features a hexagonal base with a rod that expands towards its apex a...

Stunning French Art Deco Table Lamp signed by Degué, in molded White glass with elegant geometric ornamentations and a decorated silver bronze base, and two lighten parts to contrast its shapes. France, circa 1920 Two bulbs, on both parts that are beautifully lighten up. Very good condition, excellent quality by the famous Degué. Dimensions: Height 55 cm Width 30 cm weight 6 kg and very solid and stabile. The electric system has been renewed. About Degué: Degué was the brainchild of the enigmatic David Guéron (1892-1950). Born in Turkey to Spanish Jewish parents, he fled scandal at the age of 22 by joining the French Foreign Legion in 1914, only to be sent to the Western Front, where he was wounded and then pensioned out of the army. Following the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, he set up his glassworks in Compiègne, about 50 miles northeast of Paris, to produce tableware and other functional glass. Compiègne had been the site of the Great War Armistice. In 1926, the year after the successful Paris Exhibition, Guéron moved into the more lucrative production of French art glass. He opened Verrerie d’Art Degué in Paris, a glassworks at Boulevard Malesherbes along with a gallery at 41, avenue de Paris to promote the art glass he named “Degué”. His cameo glass designs leaned heavily toward natural motifs, but also used brilliant colors that became his signature. His internally decorated vases, lamps and lampshades met instant success. Another Degué line used a sandblasting method to decorate monochromatic vessels with graphic devices and designs. The Degué factory made vases, paperweights, bowls, perfume bottles, stemware items such as liqueur glasses, lightshades, chandeliers, art glass lamps, and half-round ceiling lampshades...

This unique Art Deco table lamp by Degue features a stylized bird and waves made of pewter mounted on an exotic marble and onyx base. The shade is made of a high quality thick froste...