Jacques Adnet Neoclassical Wall Sconces, France, 1950
About the Item
- Creator:Jacques Adnet (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 5.91 in (15 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Neoclassical (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1950
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2546317691551
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.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Paris, France
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 1 day of delivery.
- Jacques Adnet Bronze Neoclassical Sconces, France, 1950By Jacques AdnetLocated in Paris, FRVery elegant pair of 2 arm gilded bronze, metal gun patina, brass and Lucite (plexiglass) double arm wall sconces in the French neoclassical style of the 1950s by Jacques Adnet. The...Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBronze
- Jacques Adnet Neoclassical Pair of Gilt Bronze Wall Sconces, France, 1950sBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Paris, FRVery elegant pair of gilt bronze and Lucite glass wall sconces in the French neoclassical style of the mid-1950s by Jacques Adnet. The sconces are in very good condition, new wired ...Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBronze
- Jacques Adnet Neoclassical Pair of Bronze Sconces, France, 1950By Jacques AdnetLocated in Paris, FRVery elegant pair of gilded bronze, brass and plexiglass double arm wall sconces in the French neoclassical style of the 1950s by Jacques Adnet. The sconces are in a really very go...Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass, Bronze
- Pair of Two-Arm Neoclassical French Style Jacques Adnet Sconces, France, 1950sBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Paris, FRVery refined pair of two-arm sconces in neoclassical style in bronze, brass and lacquered blackened metal in the style of Jacques Adnet, France, 1950s. In a original general very go...Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass, Bronze, Metal
- Neoclassical French Spear Double Sconces, 1950Located in Paris, FRUnique beautiful pair of Neoclassical Spear style two arm sconces from the mid-1950s in bronze, brass and matte black lacquered metal, with the symbols of the French nobility with t...Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass, Bronze, Metal
- Pair of French Neoclassical Style Sconces, 1950Located in Paris, FRBeautiful pair of one-arm French neoclassical style sconces, 1950s. In gilt bronze and metal gun patina, Lucite glass and new black cotton lampshades. In a very good general conditi...Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBronze
- Jacques Adnet Style Bronze Horse Sconce Wall Lamp French NeoclassicalBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Miami, FLJacques Adnet style neoclassical bronze horse head sconce, wall light, lamp with form fit original shade. In perfect working condition and takes 2 l...Category
Vintage 1960s French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass, Bronze
- Jacques Adnet Attributed Wall TorchiereBy Jacques AdnetLocated in New York, NY20th century iron and brass wall torchiere attributed to Jacques Adnet. Hand-forged iron with Roster finial. This lamp is tall 82 inches, will protrude ...Category
Vintage 1940s French Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass, Iron
- French Neoclassical Style Gilded Metal Wall Sconce, a PairLocated in Plainview, NYAn elegant pair of French Neoclassical style sconces. The two-arm metal sconces are finely gild decorated and painted in a tortoise shell color tone adding a fashionable and stylish ...Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsMetal
- Pair of French Neoclassical Maison Jansen Style Brass Wall Sconce Lanterns C1950By Maison JansenLocated in Trensacq, FRGreat pair of Jansen-style brass wall lanterns from mid-century France. A duo of torchère style lamps with cylindrical glass shades, neoclassical detailing and acorn-shaped finials....Category
Mid-20th Century French Neoclassical Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBrass
- Neoclassical Wall SconcesLocated in New Haven, CTPair of delicate 19th century English, Adams style neoclassical wall sconces Two foliate adorned arms rise from the hand carved reeded giltwood urns.Category
Antique 19th Century English Adam Style Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsWood
- 1950s Stitched Leather Sconces by Jacques AdnetBy Jacques AdnetLocated in Bois-Colombes, FR1950s stitched leather sconces with bronze horse head great condition France.Category
Vintage 1950s European Wall Lights and Sconces
MaterialsBronze