Should you happen upon a rare first lamp made by Serge Mouille, guard it with your life — it might yield a six-figure payout from a collector. Mouille, a French artisan, carefully crafted all the first midcentury modern lamps himself and believed them to be works of art. In fact, actor Henry Fonda was taken with Mouille’s work he camped out on the steps of Mouille’s studio, hoping the lamp maker would meet him and find time in his hectic schedule to create Fonda a distinctive lamp.
Just a little background on what led Serge Mouille into the lightBorn in 1922, he began his career as a silversmith at only 15 years old. In 1953, a customer tasked him with creating a massive lamp for a huge room, one which didn’t have all the busyness of Italian lamps on the market at the moment. In response, Mouille designed and built his first lamp, an austere standing floor lamp with three arms. Currently, designers covet the floor lamps, sconces and ceiling light reproductions available on the marketplace. Decide if you will want to add them into your home decor wish list.
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Serge Mouille 3-Arm Floor Lamp – $8,200
Mouille lamps have been shown from the Steph Simon Gallery in Paris from 1956 on, alongside the works of Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi and Jean Prouvé, so it’s only appropriate that they’re shown here together with the LC3 armchairs which Perriand made with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Take a bit or 2 and you wouldn’t be able to tell if this was a modern-day set to get a product shot or a posh 1950s Parisian salon.
Bruce Palmer Interior Design
In the design of all the arm lamps, every arm is topped with an aluminum”nipple” colour. These shades gave every lamp head maximum reflection for casting light, hide wiring at the back and are a major component of lots of variations on the original design.
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The single-shade version is a great match for smaller distances…
Federica Burei
… perhaps even at a super-chic bathroom.
Side note: You don’t locate an armchair and a reading lamp at a bathroom every day, but wouldn’t it be good to have someone read celebrity memoirs for you while you took a bubble bath? Right now, I will confess, I am reading Most Talkative from Andy Cohen. It would be nice if the pages didn’t have fingerprints that are wet.
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Serge Mouille 5-Arm Spider Ceiling Lamp
This is the dynamic 5-Arm Spider Ceiling Lamp. You can move the arms and shades around to alter the shape and direct the light. It also comes with three, six or seven arms. Oddly, despite its title, there’s not an eight-armed version.
Baltis Architects
You can even direct light in different ways with all the three-arm sconce. The arms go around to uplight, downlight and spotlight all at precisely the exact same moment.
Ian Moore Architects
In addition to providing reading light, these single-arm sconces twice as sculptures that are materialistic.
The angled arms play the diagonals on such beams, while their black colour contrasts with the white shade.
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