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Ateliers de Marolles, Jean Touret, Midcentury Wrought-iron Chandelier, ca.1950

Name: Ateliers de Marolles, Jean Touret, Midcentury Wrought-iron Chandelier, ca.1950
Brand: Jean Touret
Price: 10000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

French Midcentury chandelier by Ateliers de Marolles, created by Jean TOURET, artistic director and Henri VION, ironworker, France, ca.1950. Gothic chandelier with rooster singing pattern. Wrought-iron. Height : 35.5"(90cm), Diameter : 19.3"(49cm). Delivered wired for your country (US, EU, Australia, China, etc). Bulbs not supplied, LEDs can be used. 1947: Jean Touret in Marolles Jean Touret, taken prisoner at the beginning of the war, is sent to the south of Germany, in the wooded mountains of Herzgebirge. He shares the rustic life of the peasants, he learns the harshness of nature. He is a lumberjack. He discovers the trees, the wood, which he learns to evaluate, cut, and cart. Back in France, he feels unable to reintegrate the petty bourgeois world as he had known before the war. He needs to give a broader meaning to his life. Before the war, he had attended drawing and painting lessons at Le Mans with a friend Maurice Rocher. They went together to paint in the countryside. He finds Maurice Rocher, become a painter, who introduces him to his sister-in-law Odile. Jean Touret marries her. He moves to Marolles, a small village of Beauce, 450 inhabitants, exclusively rural, near Blois. There he begins a promising career as a painter. A Parisian gallery sells its production regularly. We have very few works of this period left. But suddenly the gallerist disappears. To support his large family, he begins to teach drawing in a college in Blois, and participates in fields work on farms. Jean Touret appreciates the simplicity and authenticity of these beaucerons, peasants and craftsmen. He enters their intimacy. His workshop is the daily meeting place for the men of the village. 1950 : Les Artisans de Marolles Jean Touret deplores the taste of the general public for standardized furniture, manufactured in industrial materials, forgetful of traditional know-how, and withdrawing the work to local artisans. He decides to create an association for the production of furniture and decorative objects with the craftsmen of the village by combining their know-how: a cabinetmaker, a blacksmith, a basket maker and later a ceramist. The initial nucleus: Jean Touret, artistic director Maurice Leroy, carpenter in Marolles His son Emile Henri Vion, ferronier at Marolles Edmond Le Flohic, basket maker in Marolles Manuel Gold, potter installed in Marolles, come from Paris

Creator:

Jean Touret (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Diameter: 19.3 in (49.03 cm)

Power Source:

Hardwired

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Wrought Iron

Place of Origin:

France