#jacques adnet

[gregdotorg]

Love the desk, Jacques Adnet, not quite clear on the context of designing modernist steel furniture in nazi-occupied France.

[few minutes later update: Adnet's French wikipedia page says he stayed to make sure the war would not extinguish the beacon of French design genius that lights the world. Does not say who the clients were for custom furniture in 1940.]

Jacques Adnet Vichy Desk [greg.org]

[designobjectory]

JACQUES ADNET (1900-1984)

A MAKASSAR EBONY VENEERED AND CHROMIUM PLATED METAL DESK BY JACQUES ADNET, CIRCA 1932

[almostarts]

Serge Mouille, “Cactus” table lamp, circa 1962,

Serge Mouille (1922-1988), a French lighting designer, reinterpreted the plant’s shape to realise this indisputably modern creation, striking a resonance both with abstract art and with the 1960s optical drawings by the British artist Bridget Riley.

Above a cylindrical trunk, ovals with bent, pointed ends, painted black on one side and white on the other, are stacked on top of each other. Switched on, the lamp’s pictorial essence becomes amplified, the softly diffused light ricocheting between the geometric elements, casting patterned shadows onto the wall.

Serge Mouille trained as a silversmith, joining the School of Applied Arts in Paris at the age of thirteen. He was apprenticed under Gabriel Lacroix before starting his own workshop.  It was the great art deco modernist designer Jacques Adnet, in 1951, who commissioned Mouille to make his first lamp, a standing lamp with three arms, called ‘Black Shapes’ for the seductive, breast-shaped black metal hoods covering the lights.

He also created a ceiling lamp inspired by a cactus and several ceiling lamps with multiple arms inspired by spiders. The ‘Cactus’ series, with their sharp edges and playful geometries, marked a departure in his work after the more organic pieces of the 1950s. According to Jacques Lacoste, this piece is unique and appearing on the market for the first time since the 1960s.  It was one of the last lights he made before abandoning lighting design altogether in 1963 and returning to jewellery.

It was exhibited in 1962 at the Salon des Arts Ménagers (SAM), which showcased innovations in living and interior objects, and featured in the catalogue of a joint exhibition on Jean Prouvé and Mouille, which was organised by Galerie De Lorenzo and Galerie 1950. Since that period, it remained in a gallerist’s collection before being acquired by Jacques Lacoste.

In black and white painted metal,

Dimensions : H 29 x W 12 x D 22 in.

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

1935 Henri Delacroix Interior Pochoir Print ‘Studio Bar’ Home of Mr. A. B., Paris - Jacques Adnet, Architect and Interior Decorator.

(via eBay)

[moodboardmix]

200 S Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291,

Juniper Tedhams Design,

Photo by Shade Degges

[sixty9degrees]

Jacques Adnet

[designobjectory]

Jacques Adnet Daybed, circa 1950 Tubular brass, brass, leather-covered steel, painted steel, leather.

[puttain]

King George VI’s and Queen Elizabeth’s bathrooms, finished in a spectacular and cutting-edge art deco fashion, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. Designed by August Labouret with furniture by Jacques Adnet.