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DESIGNED BY YONEL LEBOVICI, 1978
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'SOUCOUPE', AN ALUMINIUM FLOOR LAMP
Designed by Yonel Lebovici, 1978
Handmade, the adjustable aluminium disc fitted with four nickel-plated metal adjustable spotlights, on tapering triform aluminium shaft, on black enamelled steel platform
84in. (214cm.) approximate height
Engraved Lebovici Y No.17
Designed by Yonel Lebovici, 1978
Handmade, the adjustable aluminium disc fitted with four nickel-plated metal adjustable spotlights, on tapering triform aluminium shaft, on black enamelled steel platform
84in. (214cm.) approximate height
Engraved Lebovici Y No.17
Literature
Charlotte & Peter Fiell, Design of the 20th Century, Cologne, 1999, p. 415 (the model illustrated)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Further details
Yonel Lebovici began his career in 1959 working for the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Est, a manufacturer of aeroplanes and helicopters. Subsequent to studying industrial design, Lebovici in 1972 opened his Paris gallery, Formes et Couleurs, exhibiting a variety of limited-edition space-age and pop-art inspired creations, many of which displayed a heritage to the designer's technical and practical training in the aeronautics industry. His sophisticated and engagingly subversive designs were by the late 1970s enjoyed by a fashionable clientèle, and distributed by the Parisian boutiques Cardin and Jansen.