Details
A steel and aluminium architect's lamp
French c.1925, the aluminium shade with brass fitting, the articulated nickel-plated metal stem terminating in ball-and-socket juncture, with wing-nut adjustment and desk-clamp fitting, indistinctly stamped LA (I)AMP (R.)A.V.E.L. C(L)AMART - 36in.(92cm.) fully extended
French c.1925, the aluminium shade with brass fitting, the articulated nickel-plated metal stem terminating in ball-and-socket juncture, with wing-nut adjustment and desk-clamp fitting, indistinctly stamped LA (I)AMP (R.)A.V.E.L. C(L)AMART - 36in.(92cm.) fully extended
Literature
Sitting on the Edge - Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rizzoli, 1998, pl.151 desk-top version illustrated
The Art Deco Style, Theodore Menton, Dover, p.19 & 34 for contemporary illustrations of this type of lamp in situ in both Eileen Gray and Robert Mallet-Stevens interiors, c.1928.
The Art Deco Style, Theodore Menton, Dover, p.19 & 34 for contemporary illustrations of this type of lamp in situ in both Eileen Gray and Robert Mallet-Stevens interiors, c.1928.