Table lamp , attributed to Jacques Duval-Brasseur (1934-2021)

Table lamp Poisson
Circa 1970
Brass and agate slice
length 27 cms
height 21 cms

Jacques Duval-Brasseur 1934-2010
"...In the small, hushed world of interior design, the 1970s saw the return of uninhibited luxury. Noble materials combined with a touch of the baroque made their mark against the modernist rigor and plastic utopias of previous decades. Metal artist Jacques Duval-Brasseur became the darling of the jet-set, with works that were as poetic as they were unclassifiable, and which decorators and collectors are now eagerly rediscovering...."

"....His work was soon noticed by Jean Dive, founder of the Maison & Jardin gallery, an epicenter of Parisian interior design that had already revealed such talented creators as Maria Pergay. In 1966, he commissioned four large abstract sculptures for his gallery. The first two were acquired by the Shah of Iran and the actor David Niven. Duval-Brasseur's career was launched.
Supplier of the 1970s interior design scene
Throughout the 1970s, decorators were the main customers of the artist, who opened a workshop in Villejuif where several craftsmen worked. His material of choice is brass, which he welds, shapes and polishes into a wide variety of forms...."

"....Jean Dive of course, but also other decorators such as Alessandro Albrizzi and Jean-Louis Danant regularly commission him. The girlfriend of best-selling author Gérard de Villiers, his great friend, represents him in her Aurifer gallery on Avenue Victor Hugo. In short, the whole of Paris is snapping him up...."

"....Today, a zoomorphic coffee table can be seen enthroned in the middle of the Alexander McQueen showroom, while decorating duo Jacques Bec and Artur Miranda, from the Oitomemponto agency, presented a brass tree in their "Chambre de play-boy" at the latest edition of AD Intérieurs.
Bordering on kitsch for some, Duval-Brasseur's works defy boredom with panache... Long live the seventies!..."

excerpts from Bertrand Waldbillig's article "Jacques Duval-Brasseur : tout ce qui brille...".
https://www.leshardis.com/2018/10/jacques-duval-brasseur-design/


 

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