VERRE LUMIERE STUDIO, FLOORLAMP 10507, C.1978

Floorlamp 10507

Verre Lumiere edition, France, circa 1978

Gold-anodized metal and aluminum, halogen

Height. 200 x Width. 50 x Depth. 50 cm

200 H x 50 x 50 cm

Literature:

Commercial catalog Verre Lumière, France, circa 1980

Verre Lumière

Biography:

In 1968, French lighting firm Verre Lumiere was created on the initiative of Max Ingrand, the famous French master glass worker and decorator. The company was the result of a partnership between the famed 17th-century founded French glass company Saint Gobain and lighting firm Mazda.

Saint Gobain/Glass + Mazda/Lighting = Verre Lumiere

Jacques Vidal, a former collaborator of Max Ingrand, was initially appointed as the commercial director and shortly thereafter became the head of the company after Ingrand passed away in 1969. He is the one who developed the company in collaboration with young creative designers of the time such as Ben Swildens, as artistic director, and Sabine Charoy in charge of the creative studio.

In only a short few years, Verre Lumiere became the most active platform for architects and designers of that era to meet and collaborate on developing new lighting for public and private commissions, including Palais de l’Élysée in 1972 and the Brasília lamps by Michel Boyer for the French Embassy in Brazil in 1974.

The company distinguished itself through exceptional craftsmanship and highly efficient prototyping, which translated into the most modern designs of the period, with the highest quality materials and excellence in manufacturing. Verre Lumiere was known for meeting the technical challenges of developing new types of lighting for the halogen bulbs of 1969, all the new fluorescent tubes of the 1970s, and later, the Fluo compact bulbs of the early 1980s.

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