Pair of Bauhaus Philips hanging lamps in the Peter Behrens style.

€1900,00

Philips publisher, rare pair of“Luzette” type pendant lights as produced in the 1920s by the rival brand AEG (Allgemeine Electricitäts-Gesellschaft) and designed by Peter Berhens (1868-1940).
The lamp is composed of two pieces of glass: white opal for the upper part and translucent sandblasted for the lower part, the only way at the time to modulate light diffusion and temperature.
The glassware is held and sealed in a chalice connected to a period copper chain. New twisted textile cabling.
Behrens’ Berlin studio was frequented by such important figures as Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, who later collaborated with Philips.
Provenance: By Claire Pilet for “Le Coloris” in Liège, late 1940s/early 1950s, Misses Sauvage and Pilet, founders of the store (Successively art supplies, antiques and decoration, jewelry).
Some normal wear marks on the glass (screw marks) (see photos).
Delivery by carrier only, in palletized crates.
H 105 CM X Diameter 25 CM.
Price for the pair, indivisible.