A rare pair of 'Saturne' frosted glass table lamps by Jean Tranchant (1904 - 1972) for Damon
A rare pair of 'Saturne' frosted glass table lamps by Jean Tranchant (1904 - 1972) for Damon
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Each with a square oak base housing a satin-finish white glass globe, with a clear central band, on which sits a removable and adjustable ring in translucent and frosted glass.
Designed by Jean Tranchant for Damon, a lighting house in Paris who also represented Boris Lacroix and Serge Mouille. Designed in two different versions, this one with the clear band and a slightly larger ring.
France, circa 1925
This lamp is documented by the American photographer Thérèse Bonney (1894 - 1978) in a collection of work portraying design and architecture in Paris from 1925 - 1937. See final image.
Bonney was a photojournalist who both collected and took photographs and started an illustrated press service in 1924. Bonney's photographic collection documents the impact of modernism on European design of the time.
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