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Wall light
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Wall light
- Place of origin:
Paris, France (made)
- Date:
ca. 1922 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Brandt, Edgar (designer and maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Wrought iron
- Museum number:
CIRC.264-1971
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This wrought iron wall light is the work of Edgar Brandt (1880-1960), one of the leading French metalwork designers of the Art Deco period. He provided a link between the exhibition in Paris in 1925 that launched the Art Deco style and the machine-age future envisioned by the New York designers of the 1930s.
Brandt produced exquisite wrought ironwork using an assembly production line. Many of the forms were the result of the mechanical stamping processes he used in his Paris workshops. Employing a large workforce, Brandt relied on oxyacetylene-torch welding and on the newer electric-shot welding process to join the complex pieces without heating them at the forge. He created various colour effects by using the electroplating process to coat iron with other metals.
