Lot 111 Table Lamp Jean-Michel Frank

Table Lamp Jean-Michel Frank

USD 50,000

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Jean-Michel Frank
1895-1941
Table Lamp
circa 1927
impressed MADE IN FRANCE
glass, patinated brass, paper shade
height excluding fittings 8 ⅞ in.; diameter of shade 14 ⅛ in.
22.5 cm; 36 cm
来源：Private Collection, Switzerland;
Galerie L'Arc en Seine, Paris, 2007;
Private Collection;
Phillips London, April 27, 2016, lot 13;
Where acquired by the present collector.
著录："Une décoration française à San Francisco chez M. Templeton Crocker," Art et Industrie, May, 1930, p. 15
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Paris, 1997, p. 245
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, p. 130 and 277
Jean-Michel Frank: Un Décorateur dans les Paris des Années 30, exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2009, p. 84
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说明：This lot is offered together with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Jean-Michel Frank.
Few designers have shaped the language of modern luxury as profoundly as Jean-Michel Frank. Working first in Paris and later in Argentina, he developed a distinctive aesthetic founded on restraint, proportion, and material refinement, rejecting the decorative exuberance of the interwar period in favor of a modernism distilled to its essential elements. Across furniture, lighting, and interiors, Frank pursued an ideal of understated luxury, in which elegance emerged through the careful balance of form, scale, material, and craftsmanship. His refined treatment of materials from richly patinated metals and supple leathers to finely figured woods allowed each element to contribute to an atmosphere of quiet sophistication.
Throughout Frank’s oeuvre, his elegant designs give even the simplest forms a sense of distinction. His designs rely on precisely judged proportions, subtle contrasts of texture and material, and an uncompromising attention to detail. Rather than pursuing novelty or ornament, Frank cultivated an aesthetic of quiet confidence, in which luxury was expressed through tactility, balance, and restraint. This delicate equilibrium between simplicity and richness remains among the most enduring qualities of his work, and continues to inform the practice of designers and architects today.