‘Totem’ floor lamp, c. 1962
Painted aluminium, painted tubular metal, walnut. 171.1 cm. (67 3/8 in.) high
Manufactured by SCM (societé de création de modéles)
PROVENANCE Laurence and Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
LITERATURE Alan and Christine Counord, Serge Mouille, Luminaires, 1953-1962, Paris, 1983, n.p.; Anthony Delorenzo, ed., Jean Prouvé / Serge Mouille, New York, 1985, p. 150, 163, 166 and 169; Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille a French Classic, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, pp. 132, 222 and 224-225
A recurrent bout with tuberculosis forced Serge Mouille into alpine convalescence in 1959. The interruption lasted two years. When he returned to work, gone were the kinetic lamps of the previous decade: the shell shucks and batted eyes, the rotations of Saturn. As Mouille...
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