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20th century French Jean Touret Wrought Iron Chandelier, 1950s

Name: 20th century French Jean Touret Wrought Iron Chandelier, 1950s
Brand: Jean Touret
Price: 3262.22 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Wrought iron chandelier dating from the 1950s made by Jean Touret for the Marolles workshops in France. Rooster represented on the top of the chandelier, very beautiful iron work. Six bulbs, fully electricity. History of Jean Touret: A young student with a fine arts degree from Paris, Jean Touret was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He was sent to southern Germany, to the forested mountains of the Herzgebirge, where he worked as a lumberjack. There he discovered the rustic life of farmers, nature and woodworking. On his return to France, driven by a new philosophy of life, he left Paris and followed his friend, the painter Maurice Rocher, to settle in Marolles, a very small village near Blois. He became friends with the village carpenter, Emile Leroy, and met 3 other artisans (an ironworker, Henri Vion, a basket maker, Edmond Le Flohic, and a potter, Manuel Gold) with whom he created an artisanal cooperative. The founding utopia of Jean Touret, motivated by the rejection of the taste becoming widespread in the 1950s for standardized furniture, manufactured in industrial materials, forgetting traditional know-how, is to create an association for the production of furniture and decorative objects by combining know-how. His ambition to develop a simple, noble and contemporary aesthetic, while preserving the archetypal forms of rustic furniture, was born. Success will follow. In 1964, he decided to devote himself entirely to painting and left the artistic direction of the group “Artisans de Marolles et du Loir et Cher” which became “Artisanat de Marolles”. The association dissolved around 1970.

Creator:

Jean Touret (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 37.01 in (94 cm)Diameter: 19.69 in (50 cm)

Power Source:

Hardwired

Lampshade:

Not Included

Materials and Techniques:

Wrought Iron

Place of Origin:

France