Iron Floor Lamp in the Style of Les Artisans de Marolles

A run of seven gilt forged iron table lamps in the taste of Les Artisans de Marolles, with decorative fleur-de-lis detailing, three point base...

A mid-20th century ironwork floor lamp with stylised heart detail to the stem and curved three point base. French, c. 1950s. Supplied with an off-white dupion silk shade.

This lamp is a rare wrought iron piece dating from 1955, created by Francis Dewaele for Les Artisans de Marolles under the direction of Jean Touret. It is distinguished by its elegan...

Jean Touret (1916-2004) for the Marolles workshop, Four-light floor lamp model « Girouette », Wrought iron beaten with rooster decoration and under each light the initial of the four cardinal points, Tripod base, With four lampshades, Circa 1950, France. Measures : height 190.5 cm, width 41.91 cm, depth 55.88 cm. Jean Touret is a French sculptor, whose mainly religious work, uses wood and metals to achieve sometimes monumental sculptures (statuary, altars, organ buffets). His art that remains figurative but at the limit of abstraction, coincides with the movement back to the liturgical simplicity that Vatican II. Jean Touret is also known as designer. At the beginning of his career, in the Loir et Cher, he set up a craft cooperative "The Artisans de Marolles...