Large Eileen Gray Table Lamp by Jumo

Eileen Gray design classic table - or desk lamp, made by Jumo, France. Modernist, elegant and functional with elements of Art Deco. This iconic lamp is constructed in green lacquered folded sheet metal resting on a circular chromed metal base. Circular metal lampshade with diffuser in white perspex with a switch to the base. This stylish Eileen Gray table lamp was edited in France by Jumo circa 1930 through to the 1950's. These lamps so rarely come onto the market they are a true collectors item. So impressive when switched on the whole white perspex illuminates a radiant white glow, exactly what you need to give ambiance to a room when the nights draw in. Condition is very good, with expected age related wear.

Bio

Designer, artist and architect Eileen Gray was one of the most fascinating creative figures of the 20th century. Her body of work includes lustrous lacquered pieces, her Dragons chair set an auction record for modern furniture ($28 million) at the 2009 sale of the Yves Saint Laurent estate. Her sleek chrome furnishings that rival the work of Le Corbusier and the members of the Bauhaus as exemplars of pure, modernist design.

Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878–31 October 1976) was an Irish architect and furniture designer and a Pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland in 1878, Eileen Gray spent her childhood in London and was among the first women to be admitted to the Slade School of Art in London, where she took up painting in 1898 before undergoing an apprenticeship in a London lacquer workshop. Gray died in 1976, at the age of 98, in Paris.

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