"Ogive" lamp, Maison Charles, Paris, France, circa 1970

Attractive two X-shaped steel legs decorated with ormolu swan heads at the top and imitation swan feet at the ends. Original white leather seat. Signed. Overall width: 56 cm (22 inc...

Lamp consisting of a large block of pyrite fixed on a bent, polished steel base. Recent cotton lampshade, redone to match the original. Overall height: 69 cm (27.16 inches) Base height: 45 cm (17.7 inches) Diameter of the lampshade: 32 cm (12.6 inches) Base width: 13 cm (5.12 inches) Base lenght: 21 cm (8.3 inches) Biography Claude de Muzac (1935-2022) was a highly talented decorator and artist. With subtlety, precision and daring, Claude de Muzac set out from her beginnings around 1960 to showcase the rarest and strangest objects, from dog bones to paintings by her contemporaries, in surprising, precious and poor materials, Plexiglas, enamel and scales, art objects that had suffered or no longer suffered the velvet and gilding of an overly 19th-century frame. After studying drawing at Paul Colin’s studio and working as a window dresser, she was hired by Daniel Cordier, with whom she trained in the presentation of artworks. She soon opened her own boutique where she offered frames of constant inventiveness, playing with contrasting materials and matching colors. Her famous clients included Georges Pompidou, Peter O’Toole, André Malraux, Edmond de Rothschild, Man Ray, and the list goes on. Some, like Max Ernst, chose the frame and painted for the frame. As for Serge Poliakoff, he came in every day and commissioned frames, and in one of his favorites, which was made of lapis lazuli, he painted a large blue composition. Her customers are often her friends, and her friends become her collaborators, so she surrounds herself with those she loves, inspiring them to create new objects and jewelry that she presents in her Grotte-galerie. The unclassifiable intuition that makes Claude de Muzac’s work so beautiful is certainly this quality of entourage. Shadows become frames, pedestals become faces, and the other is each time for her a new form of inspiration, of rapprochement or opposition, of respect and passion. Source: « Claude de Muzac », la Galerie Parisienne.

Large lamp consisting of a large block of Pyrite on a folded and polished steel base, by Claude de Musac, Paris. Original lampshade. Height: 89 cm (35 inches) Diameter: 40 cm (15.8 inches) Dimension without lampshade: Height: 53 cm (20.1 inches), Width: 15 cm (6 inches), Depth: 21,5 cm (8.5 inches). Biography Claude de Musac (1935-2022) was a highly talented decorator and artist. With subtlety, precision and daring, Claude de Muzac set out from her beginnings around 1960 to showcase the rarest and strangest objects, from dog bones to paintings by her contemporaries, in surprising, precious and poor materials, Plexiglas, enamel and scales, art objects that had suffered or no longer suffered the velvet and gilding of an overly 19th-century frame. After studying drawing at Paul Colin’s studio and working as a window dresser, she was hired by Daniel Cordier, with whom she trained in the presentation of artworks. She soon opened her own boutique where she offered frames of constant inventiveness, playing with contrasting materials and matching colors. Her famous clients included Georges Pompidou, Peter O’Toole, André Malraux, Edmond de Rotschild, Man Ray and the list goes on. Some, like Max Ernst, chose the frame and painted for the frame. As for Serge Poliakoff, he came in every day and commissioned frames, and in one of his favorites, which was made of lapis lazuli, he painted a large blue composition. Her customers are often her friends, and her friends become her collaborators, so she surrounds herself with those she loves, inspiring them to create new objects and jewelry that she presents in her Grotte-galerie. The unclassifiable intuition that makes Claude de Muzac’s work so beautiful is certainly this quality of entourage. Shadows become frames, pedestals become faces, and the other is each time for her a new form of inspiration, of rapprochement or opposition, of respect and passion. Source: « Claude de Musac », la Galerie...

Rare palm tree table lamp with two heads, gilt and patinated iron in a square planter in oxidized brass, lined with a polished brass angle. France, circa 1970. Measures: Diameter...

A very well made nickel on brass table lamp stamped Maison Charles. Bespoke top fitting linen shade.

French Maison Charles table lamps usually use nature and history as muses. With this glamorous arabesque brass design, and original brass lamp shade from Maison Charles, this lamp wi...

Maison Charles very large tall cast brass table lamp with original height adjustable brass metal shade. Opulent, ornate and decadent - everything you would expect from beautifully cr...

Elegant table lamp made by Maison Charles, Paris in 1970s. Bicolored bronze and steel, signed on the base.