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Large column lamp, by Philippe Barbier, Maison Barbier, France, circa 1960/1970
By Philippe Barbier, Maison Barbier
Located in Paris, FR
Rare large turned travertine lamp and nickel-plated metal, in the form of an antique column.
Recent off-white cotton lampshade remade to match the original.
Total height: 165 cm (6...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Travertine, Nickel
Tripod floor lamp, Edition Maison Arlus, Paris, France, circa 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Tripod floor lamp produced by Maison Arlus in the 1950s.
The base consists of three black-lacquered metal branches fixed on a gilded brass axle, topped by a double stem in black lacq...
Category
Vintage 1950s Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Tripod floor lamp with adjustable cone shade Paris, France, circa 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Tripod floor lamp, black metal structure, recent off-white cotton lampshade remade to match the original.
This sleek floor lamp features a black-lacquered metal base and arm.
The la...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pair of square sconces in polished brass, by Philippe Jean, France, circa 1970
By Philippe Jean
Located in Paris, FR
Two large 1970s sconces made up of a plate supporting a structure made of square tubes in polished and gilded brass.
Three pairs available.
Biography
Philippe Jean, France (1931-1...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Modernist floor lamp, Paris, France, circa 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Floor lamp made from a single steel tube, bent and folded into shape and lacquered in black.
Recent cotton “diabolo” lampshade. Identical to the original.
Height: 171 cm (67.32 inche...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Steel
"Peacock feather" wall lamp, by Isabelle Masson-Faure, France, circa 1980
By Isabelle Masson-Faure
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture-wall light in worked brass with four slices of blue agate.
Two electric bulbs are centrally concealed in the back of the wall light. Signed.
Biography
Isabelle Masson-Fau...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Agate, Brass
"Pinapple" lamp base, Italy, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Large ceramic “pineapple” lamp base with metallic and gold glaze.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel
Adjustable and extendable floor lamp, by Maison Lunel, Paris, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Extendable and adjustable floor lamp by Maison Lunel.
Made entirely of polished brass. The double “diabolo” shade is mounted on a ball-and-socket joint, allowing it to be swivelled i...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
"Pyrite" table lamp by Claude de Muzac, Paris, France, circa 1970
By Claude De Muzac
Located in Paris, FR
Lamp consisting of a large block of pyrite fixed on a bent, polished steel base.
Recent cotton lampshade, redone to match the original.
Overall height: 69 cm (27.16 inches)
Base height: 45 cm (17.7 inches)
Diameter of the lampshade: 32 cm (12.6 inches)
Base width: 13 cm (5.12 inches)
Base lenght: 21 cm (8.3 inches)
Biography
Claude de Muzac (1935-2022) was a highly talented decorator and artist.
With subtlety, precision and daring, Claude de Muzac set out from her beginnings around 1960 to showcase the rarest and strangest objects, from dog bones to paintings by her contemporaries, in surprising, precious and poor materials, Plexiglas, enamel and scales, art objects that had suffered or no longer suffered the velvet and gilding of an overly 19th-century frame. After studying drawing at Paul Colin’s studio and working as a window dresser, she was hired by Daniel Cordier, with whom she trained in the presentation of artworks.
She soon opened her own boutique where she offered frames of constant inventiveness, playing with contrasting materials and matching colors. Her famous clients included Georges Pompidou, Peter O’Toole, André Malraux, Edmond de Rothschild, Man Ray, and the list goes on. Some, like Max Ernst, chose the frame and painted for the frame. As for Serge Poliakoff, he came in every day and commissioned frames, and in one of his favorites, which was made of lapis lazuli, he painted a large blue composition. Her customers are often her friends, and her friends become her collaborators, so she surrounds herself with those she loves, inspiring them to create new objects and jewelry that she presents in her Grotte-galerie. The unclassifiable intuition that makes Claude de Muzac’s work so beautiful is certainly this quality of entourage. Shadows become frames, pedestals become faces, and the other is each time for her a new form of inspiration, of rapprochement or opposition, of respect and passion.
Source: « Claude de Muzac », la Galerie Parisienne.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Pyrite, Steel
Ceramic lamp with double draped shade by F. Ré, H. Ugo, Vallauris, circa 1955
By Helène Ugo
Located in Paris, FR
Large double lamp base in yellow ceramic with black decoration by the ceramist François Ré, Hélène Ugo workshop in Vallauris, with its double draped shade.
Stamped “Hélène Ugo Valla...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel
Pair of “leaves” sconces Murano, Italy, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Wall lights featuring a large, thick sheet of Murano glass, frosted on the back, concealing a light bulb.
The bracket and mounting plate are in polished brass.
Two pairs available.
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Rare pair of sconces “aux Chinois”, Paris, France, circa 1880
Located in Paris, FR
Rare pair of late 19th century sconces, each consisting of a carved wood and papier-mâché panel lacquered with gold highlights, adorned with a Chinese character with glass sulfide ey...
Category
Antique 1880s French Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Gold
Pair of "drops" sconces, Lumica, Barcelona, Spain, circa 1970
By BD Lumica
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of “gouttes” sconces, by Lumica in Barcelona, circa 1970. The sconces feature a structure of polished brass square tubes finished with chrome-plated cabochons. Each sconce suppo...
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Three-arm floor lamp, Éditions Maison Lunel, Paris, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Floor lamp in black lacquered metal and brass, composed of three luminous lacquered metal arms, held together in the middle by a brass ring and fixed to a circular black-lacquered ca...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Adjustable and extendable floor lamp, by Maison Lunel, Paris, France, circa 1960
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Floor lamp with circular base weighted in cast iron and trimmed in black leather, encircled by a brass angle iron. Extendable brass stem with adjustable height, mounted on a large ba...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Iron
Set of four “Rocher” lamps André Cazenave, Atelier A, France, circa 1960/1970
By Atelier A, Andre Cazenave
Located in Paris, FR
Four stone-shaped lamps in resin and marble powder, edited by Atelier A in Paris.
The largest: Lenght: 51 cm (20.08 in) Height: 40 cm (15.76 in) Width: 43 cm (17 in)
The medium: Leng...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble
Pair of ceramic lamps by Jean-Jacques Roger Maison Jean Roger, France circa 1960
Located in Paris, FR
Two ceramic table lamps painted in trompe l’oeil of wood, decorated with an Applewhite-style arabesque fillet. Signed below the base.
Story
Founded in 1947, Maison Jean Roger is kn...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Very large green “bubble” chandelier, Murano, Italy, circa 2020
Located in Paris, FR
Very large chandelier consisting of a round polished brass axle to which are attached twenty-two transparent green glass globes by Vistosi from the 1980s.
Modern craftsmanship.
Category
2010s Italian Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Pair of chandeliers, Venini, Murano, Italy, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of Venini Murano chandeliers in light amethyst blown glass with twelve arms of light.
They are stamped “Venini” in a glass cartouche.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Pair of "Saga" lighting sconces, by Kay Kørbing, Ed. Lyfa, Denmark, circa 1960
By Lyfa, Kay Korbing
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of “Saga” sconces, designed by architect Kay Kørbing for Lyfa.
The base is in polished brass, the shade support in black lacquered brass and the shade in thick Orrefors glass.
T...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Pair of ceramic sconces Paris, France, circa 1970
By Colette Gueden
Located in Paris, FR
Two amusing glazed ceramic sconces featuring two masks.
Light emerges from the top, mouth and eyes of each sconce.
In the spirit of Colette Guéden.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ceramic
Swinging floor lamp with pendulum, Edition Maison Lunel, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Pendulum floor lamp. Gilded brass tripod base from which rises a wooden shaft housing an articulated arm finished with a counterweight, also in gilded brass. This arm supports a larg...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Lamp in brass and agate slice, by Willy Daro, Brussels, Belgium, circa 1970
By Willy Daro
Located in Paris, FR
A large table lamp whose polished brass structure supports a round agate slice concealing a light bulb.
Lampshade width: 45 cm (17.7 inches)
Lampshade depth: 30 cm (11.8 inches)
Tota...
Category
Vintage 1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Agate, Brass
"Pinapple" lamp base Italy, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Lamp stand in patinated aluminum cast representing a pineapple on a square base.
Overall diameter: 26 cm (10.2 inches)
Height: 78 cm (30.7 inches)
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
"Pinapple" lamp base Italy, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Amusing lamp base in patinated cast aluminum depicting a pineapple.
Height: 72 cm (28.3 inches)
Overall diameter: 20 cm (7.8 inches)
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of ceramic lamps, France, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of ceramic lamps with trompe-l’oeil painted decoration of tortoiseshell, ivory and blackened wood, in the style of Jean Roger.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
$2,973 / set
Small lighting sconces, Croatia, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Very important set of small 1970s-era sconces from a palace on the Adriatic.
The mounts are in brass and the lighting part in faceted pressed glass.
Recently re-electrified.
Sold ind...
Category
Vintage 1970s Croatian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Large "palmtree" floor lamp by Christian Techoueyres, Jansen, France circa 1970
By Maison Jansen, Christian Techoueyres
Located in Paris, FR
Palm tree floor lamp, designed by Christian Techoueyres for Maison Jansen in the 1970s.
Large sculptural floor lamp in hand-cut, shaped and soldered brass, set in a black laminated w...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Art Deco twisted glass chandelier, Barovier & Toso, Murano, Italy, circa 1940
By Barovier&Toso, Ercole Barovier
Located in Paris, FR
Art Deco chandelier by Barovier & Toso, based on a design by Ercole Barovier. Chrome-plated brass structure and accessories, the central suspension arm and the body of the chandelier...
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Pair of monumental sconces in polished brass, Italy, circa 2020
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of monumental sconces made entirely of bent and polished brass.
The brass cubes conceal three lights per sconce. Modern craftsmanship.
Height: 95 cm (37.4 inches - 3.12 feet)
Wi...
Category
2010s Italian Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Important "Sputnik" chandelier with glass flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Important brass and glass “sputnik” chandelier.
A brass sphere supports numerous brass spokes on which hang a multitude of small flowers in transparent Murano glass.
The suspension r...
Category
2010s Italian Hollywood Regency Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Rare folding wall light in solid brass, France, circa 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Rare French wall light from the 1950s, fully foldable along the wall.
The light arm is in three folding parts, in solid brass, as are the base and ball joint. The shade can be rotate...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of large chromed steel lamps, Reggiani, Italy, circa 1970
By Reggiani
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of chrome-plated metal lamps consisting of four hollow tubes welded to a central stem and a round base plate. The top of the lamp supports a cap that unscrews to install the lam...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Pair of small modernist chandeliers by Palme & Walter, Palwa, Germany circa 1960
By Palme & Walter, Palwa
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of small modernist lantern-shaped chandeliers, in gilded brass and crystals.
One light.
Total height: 88 cm (34.64 inches)
Height without chain nor pavilion: 16 cm (6.3 inches)...
Category
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Small modernist chandelier by Palme & Walter, Palwa, Germany, circa 1960
By Palme & Walter, Palwa
Located in Paris, FR
Small modernist lantern-shaped chandelier in gilded brass and crystals.
Two lights.
Total height: 95 cm (37.4 inches)
Height without cain and pavilion: 28 cm (11.02 inches)
Width: 12...
Category
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Pair of black marble lamps with sliding shade by F.Knoll, Knoll Intl, circa 1960
By Florence Knoll, Knoll
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of lamps with a cylindrical base formed by a succession of black marble disks veined with white, from which rises a chrome-plated shaft supporting a white lacquered metal cap wi...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Metal, Steel, Chrome
Chandelier-ceiling light, Mazzega, Murano, Italy, circa 1960
By Mazzega
Located in Paris, FR
Interesting ceiling fixture made of pieces of blown glass to which a large number of bluish-grey glass flakes have been heat-glued.
The glass pieces conceal four light bulbs. The bas...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel, Chrome
Large ceiling light "drops", Lumica, Barcelona, Spain, circa 1970
By BD Lumica
Located in Paris, FR
Large ceiling light made of solid glass “drops” attached by gilded chains to a gilded brass ceiling light.
Nine lights.
Width: 40 cm (15.7) x 40 cm (15.7 inches)
Height: 80 cm (31.5 ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Adjustable "diabolo" floor lamp by Maison Lunel, Paris, France, circa 1960
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Double-light “diabolo” floor lamp by Maison Lunel.
The polished brass and lacquered metal shaft supports an articulated arm terminating in a ball-and-socket joint to which the double...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Rare rotating wall lamp by Maison Lunel, France 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
A rare pendulum wall light by Maison Lunel, France, circa 1950. The sconce swivels 180° and at the top, the light arm passes through a ring where i...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Pair of “pyramid” lamps in folded stainless steel Paris, France, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of ambience lamps in bent and brushed stainless steel, France circa 1980. One light each.
Height: 66 cm (26 inches)
Width: 14,5 cm (5.7 inches)
Depth: 14,5 cm (5.7 inches)
Category
Vintage 1980s French Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pair of double wall lamps in perspex, brass and lacquered metal, Ed.Lunel 1960
By Maison Lunel, Royal Lumière
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of double wall lamps in perspex, brass and black-lacquered metal, designed by Royal Lumière and published by Maison Lunel.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Adjustable and extendable floor lamp, by Maison Arlus, Paris, France, circa 1950
By Arlus
Located in Paris, FR
French floor lamp from the 1950s, produced by Maison Arlus. Base and arm in polished brass, shaft in black lacquered and polished brass, ring supporting the lampshades and switches i...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Important “drops” chandelier, Editions BD Lumica, Barcelona, Spain, circa 1970
By BD Lumica
Located in Paris, FR
Large, beautiful chandelier from Lumica Edition in Barcelona, circa 1970.
It consists of a geometric structure of square brass tubes with chrome-plated end caps, on which solid glass...
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Rare bronze floor lamp in neoclassical style, Paris, France, circa 1880
Located in Paris, FR
Rare bronze floor lamp with green patina, neoclassical style.
Double-ringed shaft surmounted by a Corinthian capital supporting a winged chimera, seated, wings outstretched. Tripod ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Floor Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Bronze
Pair of wall lights, Michel Boyer, Ed. Verre Lumière, Paris, France, circa 1978
By Michel Boyer, Verre Lumière
Located in Paris, FR
Rare pair of “écran” sconces by Michel Boyer, Verre Lumière edition, in opaline glass and gilded brass. Hanging plate in white lacquered metal.
Width: 40 cm (cm (15.7 inches)
Height...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of lamps in fractal resin and nickel-plated metal, France, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Rare pair of baluster-shaped lamps in fractal resin and nickel-plated metal.
New shades in light-gray percale and gilded interior, identical to the originals, recently re-electrified...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Nickel
Large “Sputnik” chandelier in brass and glass Murano, Italy, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Large Murano glass and brass chandelier, circa 1980.
A structure made up of a sphere and brass rods supports « flowers » of brass and glass beads. 56 light bulbs.
It is possible to ...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Space Age Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Three-light floor lamp in the spirit of Maison Lunel Paris, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Large 1950’s floor lamp in the spirit of the Maison Lunel, made in France.
Three interlocking polished brass rods are fixed to a black lacquere...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
Table lamp in the shape of a celestial globe, Spain, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Large « bouillotte » style lamp in the shape of a celestial globe in silver-plated metal and metal with bronze patina. Recent lampshade identical to t...
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Foldable and adjustable wall light by Maison Arlus, Paris, France, circa 1950
By Arlus
Located in Paris, FR
Large wall light, extendable and 180° rotatable, in black lacquered metal and polished brass.
The light arm rotates in the wall-mounted hook and can be extended. The lampshade is mou...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Large "sputnik" chandelier in brass and glass, Murano, Italy, circa 1980
Located in Paris, FR
Large « sputnik » chandelier featuring numerous brass rods fixed to a sphere and supporting round plates of etched and sandblasted glass of various sizes. Sixteen bulbs. The supensio...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Hollywood Regency Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Desk lamp with photo holder in gilded bronze by C. V. Boeltz France circa 1980
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful lamp with photo holder in exploded bronze gilded in 24 K fine gold, supporting numerous rock crystals.
Biography Claude Victor Boeltz, France (1937)
Claude-Victor Boeltz,...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Plate, Bronze
Desk lamp with photo holder in gilded bronze by C. V. Boeltz France circa 1980
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful lamp with photo holder in exploded bronze gilded in 24 K fine gold, supporting numerous rock crystals.
Biography Claude Victor Boeltz, France (1937)
Claude-Victor Boeltz,...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Plate, Bronze
Pair of ceramic lamps on columns, attributed to Tommaso Barbi, Italy, circa 1980
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of ceramic lamps and columns, with trompe-l’oeil enameled decoration of gray and white veined red marble and black lacquer. The bases of the lamps are enhanced by a gilded fille...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Floor Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Lacquer
Large folding wall light René Mathieu Ed. Maison Lunel, Paris, France circa 1950
By Rene Mathieu, Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Large foldable and swiveling wall light by René Mathieu for Lunel. Double star-perforated sheet metal shade in matte yellow enamel and white int...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Sheet Metal, Steel
Pair of wall lights in perspex, brass, lacquered metal, Lunel, France circa 1960
By Maison Lunel, Royal Lumière
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of sconces in perspex, brass and black lacquered metal, designed by Royal Lumière and published by Maison Lunel.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of blown glass chandeliers, Murano, Italy, circa 1970
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of chandeliers in blown glass with gold inclusions, Murano, Italy, decorated with leaves and daffodils. Five arms of light.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Rococo Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Gold
Large "Pyrite" lamp, by Claude de Musac, Paris, France, circa 1970
By Claude De Muzac
Located in Paris, FR
Large lamp consisting of a large block of Pyrite on a folded and polished steel base, by Claude de Musac, Paris.
Original lampshade.
Height: 89 cm (35 inches)
Diameter: 40 cm (15.8 inches)
Dimension without lampshade: Height: 53 cm (20.1 inches), Width: 15 cm (6 inches), Depth: 21,5 cm (8.5 inches).
Biography
Claude de Musac (1935-2022) was a highly talented decorator and artist.
With subtlety, precision and daring, Claude de Muzac set out from her beginnings around 1960 to showcase the rarest and strangest objects, from dog bones to paintings by her contemporaries, in surprising, precious and poor materials, Plexiglas, enamel and scales, art objects that had suffered or no longer suffered the velvet and gilding of an overly 19th-century frame. After studying drawing at Paul Colin’s studio and working as a window dresser, she was hired by Daniel Cordier, with whom she trained in the presentation of artworks.
She soon opened her own boutique where she offered frames of constant inventiveness, playing with contrasting materials and matching colors. Her famous clients included Georges Pompidou, Peter O’Toole, André Malraux, Edmond de Rotschild, Man Ray and the list goes on. Some, like Max Ernst, chose the frame and painted for the frame. As for Serge Poliakoff, he came in every day and commissioned frames, and in one of his favorites, which was made of lapis lazuli, he painted a large blue composition. Her customers are often her friends, and her friends become her collaborators, so she surrounds herself with those she loves, inspiring them to create new objects and jewelry that she presents in her Grotte-galerie. The unclassifiable intuition that makes Claude de Muzac’s work so beautiful is certainly this quality of entourage. Shadows become frames, pedestals become faces, and the other is each time for her a new form of inspiration, of rapprochement or opposition, of respect and passion.
Source: « Claude de Musac », la Galerie...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Pyrite, Steel
A pair of nickel-plated brass floor lamps by Philippe Barbier France circa 1970
By Philippe Barbier, Maison Barbier
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of large floor lamps by Philippe Barbier for Maison Barbier, Paris, France circa 1970.
They are in nickel-plated metal and support three light bulbs each. Original lampshades wi...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Floor Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel, Nickel
